maple ridge pitt meadows news - september 23, 2011 online edition

Award for helping others with autism. p16Along the FraserMore need help than we imagine. p6

The mayoral race in Pitt Meadows is ramping up, with one candidate fl aunting his federal and provincial political connections in a bid to win the seat.

In a press release issued Wednes-day by a marketing fi rm hired for John Becker’s campaign, B.C.

Liberal regional director Marion Keys heaps praise on the current city councillor for recently win-ning the May Brown Award, which recognizes a member of the B.C. Liberal Party “who has performed tirelessly as a community and civic leader.”

“We need more politicians in this world like this,” said Keys. “John doesn’t bend with the wind; he has a strong moral compass. He would be a great mayor for Pitt Mead-ows.”

Showing off one’s political lean-ings is unusual for Pitt Meadows

p o l i t i c i a n s , who’ve largely stayed away from slates and overt political alliances.

But with three people vying for a seat that’s been held by retiring Mayor Don MacLean for the past 12 years, Becker believes it was time to highlight what he sees as

strengths.It doesn’t hurt to have friendships

with B.C. Liberal bigwigs, including Premier Christy Clark, he noted.

“It gives you an ear,” said Becker, who door-knocked for Clark dur-ing her campaign to become MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey.

“She knows who I am. I’ve built some credibility and it’s not just politically, it’s because I work hard. Therefore, when I say that Pitt Meadows needs something, these people know that I am serious about it.”

Pitt Meadows mayoral race already heating up

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Becker brings out bigwigs

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Pet trackersAl Maclellan and his bloodhound Jed track lost pets. See story, p8.

Olson on death bed

Corrections Canada has con-fi rmed that serial child killer Clif-ford Robert Olson is dying from cancer.

Known as the Beast of B.C., the 71-year-old Olson was transferred from a Quebec prison to a hospital in Laval earlier this week and may have just days to live.

For Ray King, whose son Ray King Jr. was murdered by Olson, hearing of Olson’s pending demise was welcome.

“He is going to die and it will be over. I will try and put him out of my mind, but I can’t put my son out of my mind,” said the Maple Ridge resident, who would prefer little at-tention be paid to Olson’s impend-ing death from cancer.

Over several months from 1980-81, Olson abducted, raped and mur-dered eight girls and three boys aged between nine and 18.

See Olson, p14

See Becker, p15

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Opinion 6

Along the Fraser 6

Parenting 21

Community Calendar 23

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Gerri Willms brims with pride as she walks the halls of her former and

now current high school. Back when she was known as Gerri Laseur,

Willms was a student at Pitt Meadows Second-ary School.

“Class of 1969,” she says. Today, 50 years after the school fi rst opened,

she is a teacher at the school that so many Pitt Meadows residents have come to know so well.

Next Friday, Sept. 30, the school will cel-ebrates its 50th birthday.

For long-time Pitt Meadows residents like Willms, the school has been a centre-piece for their community.

“It’s really so much more than just a build-ing,” she says. “We’re celebrating the whole community. They are one and the same.”

It is the city’s only high school, and one with a proud tradition.

Willms is helping organize the day-long fes-tivities next Friday.

The school has been dolled up for the oc-casion. Display cases are packed with school memorabilia, yellowed textbooks and artifacts from years past.

When the school opened in 1961, it was home to just 300 students in Grades 7 to 10. In 1964, the fi rst class of graduates re-ceived their Dogwoods, and today the school is home to 1,062 students.

The school has undergone numerous renovations in the past 50 years, adding a science wing, a new gym, a second fl oor, as well as the school’s new all-weather artifi cial turf fi eld, which opened last year.

The school has also been the incubator for a host of students who have gone on to fame and fortune, including race car driver Greg Moore, NHLers Brendan Morrison and Brandon Yip, and actress Molly Parker.

Principal Dennis Dickson says the anniver-sary is a great opportunity to honour the many teachers who have spent decades at the school, teaching a generation of Pitt Meadows’ best and brightest.

“We have a number of teachers who have been here for 20, 30 years,” he says. “I think

it says a lot about a school that many of them have been here as long as they have.”

French teacher and decorated basketball coach Rich Goulet fi rst came to the school in 1979, when it was less than half the size it is

now. His fi rst impressions of the school were not posi-tive.

“It seemed like the stu-dents seemed to be running things,” he says. “For the fi rst two years I really ques-tioned why I came here.”

However, that quickly changed, he says, and thanks to support from the school’s administration and teachers, the school transformed itself into a well-respected academic and athletics school.

As for the school’s sporting reputation, much of that can be credited to Goulet’s tireless work as a coach and athletic director.

“When I was hired, the principal asked me to win him a provincial basketball championship in fi ve years,” Goulet recalls.

Goulet and his Marauders did it in four, win-ning the B.C. AA championship in 1983.

In addition to the many teachers that have helped formed the fabric of the school, also critical have been the large number of com-

munity volunteers. You just have to look at the number of former students who decide to volunteer their time and come back to the school to help coach the school’s sports teams, says Dickson.

“It’s never been about the walls, but the peo-ple inside them,” he says. “Their commitment speaks volumes.”

The school is holding a birthday ceremony with awards for students and invited guests only at 9:30 before school is dismissed early at 11:30 a.m.

From 1 to 7 p.m. there will be an open house with tours of the school, and dinner from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., served in the multi-purpose room.

Capping off the day will a football game be-tween the Pitt Meadows Marauders senior boys’ football team and Burnaby’s Moscrop secondary, under the lights at 7:30 p.m.

Graduates, ex-students, and community members are welcome to attend.

See video online @ mapleridgenews.com.

Pitt secondary celebrates 50 yearsColleen Flanagan/THE NEWS

Gerry Willms, who graduated from Pitt secondary in 1969 and now teachers there, sits in front of a display case honouring the occasion.

• For more information about Pitt Meadows second-ary’s 50th anniversary celebrations on Friday, Sept. 30, visit http://schools.sd42.ca/pmss/pmss-turns-50/.

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The waves of goodwill and partisan antago-nism sweep back and forth across the House of Commons in Ottawa.

While the mood in the House on the hill Wednesday was warm and fuzzy, commemo-rating the late NDP leader Jack Layton, Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission MP Randy Kamp says that could change.

With the fi rst majority Conservative govern-ment (166 seats vs. the NDP’s 103) in Ottawa since the days of Brian Mulroney in the 1980s, Kamp says for now, the atmosphere is quieter.

“I’m not sure if it feels any different. It’s cer-tainly not as raucous.”

Kamp added he’s not sure if that’s because there’s a majority gov-ernment, “or we all de-cided to be nicer to each other.”

Wednesday also saw the introduction of the Conservatives’ big crime bill, lump-ing some of the party’s earlier law and order is-sues into a single, major piece of legislation.

The bills were all pre-viously introduced and are now back to fulfi ll a campaign promise that the Conservatives would pass them within the fi rst 100 days in of-fi ce.

“So none of these are new. We’re just keeping that promise,” Kamp said.

While critics say the legislation is moving Canada towards an American style-system of jailing more people, Kamp disagrees.

“I think our policy is quite different than the Americans.

“None of these mea-

sures that we’re putting in place creates crimi-nals, but it does keep them in jail longer.

“Most Canadians agree with that ap-proach, that people in jail should be in jail.”

The legislation is called the Safe Streets and Communities Act and will also target ter-rorism. Key parts:

• increased jail terms for offences against children, as well as the introduction of two new offences;

• tougher terms for possessing drugs for the purpose of traffi ck-ing, including manda-tory jail of six months for those growing six or more marijuana plants for the purpose of traf-fi cking;

• eliminating house arrest, or conditional sentencing, for serious or violent crimes;

• allowing victims to participate in parole hearings;

• allowing the court to look at a youth’s

other, non-ju-dicial history when passing sentence – it also would be mandatory for the Crown to seek an adult sentence for youths convict-ed of serious crimes (mur-der, aggra-vated sexual assault);

• another measure di-rected at youth would make it easier to jail if they were in-volved in reck-less behaviour, even though no one was hurt (that would ex-pand the defi ni-tion of “violent offence” making imprisonment easier);

• add “specifi c de-terrence and denun-ciation” to sentencing principles;

• extending the pe-riods of ineligibility to

apply for par-dons of crimi-nal records;

• allowing victims to sue those who committed ter-rorist acts, as well as certain countries.

Local NDPer E l i z a b e t h R o s e n a u thinks the bill is a gradual move towards the U.S. sys-tem, which she says puts more people in jail than the rest of the world.

“This is an incremental change that’s going in the di-

rection of the American system.”

She wants a more fl ex-ible approach that iden-tifi es and treats those who are mentally ill or those with low-IQ or with addictions.

Conservative gov’t introduces big crime billMood in House quieter, but that may change: MP

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“Addiction is no lon-ger a consideration. It’s black-and-white think-ing and puts everybody in the system and puts a stamp on them called criminal … and is very likely to lead them to a life of crime.”

Rosenau is a Special Olympics swimming coach and pointed out that recent intervention helped save a develop-mentally disabled man from getting involved in a life of crime – cost-ing the state millions in prison costs.

Neither is there any structure in place at the school level to identify

those at risk. “But that’s not hap-

pening at the school level and my question is, why not?”

A more effi cient means of targeting therapies for inmates, she said, would be iden-tifying each inmate’s ail-ment and treat for those conditions rather than waste money on point-less therapies.

She says the reason the public supports get-tough on crime laws is because the media sen-sationalizes coverage of crime and exaggerates its role.

“That’s because there’s a great deal of sensa-tional coverage of crime that makes it seem like it’s a larger problem.”

But if more time was spent showing the oth-er side, people would change their minds on the issue.

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pedia, 7,225,800 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2009 — about three per cent of the U.S. popula-tion.

The website says the U.S. has the world’s high-est incarceration rate, 743 people per 100,000. Canada’s sits at 117.

The U.S. incarceration rate is slightly below the rate that existed the pre-Second World War days in the Soviet Union, when Stalinist terror produced a rate of 800 people imprisoned per 100,000 of the popula-tion.

• Kamp will present to Layton’s wife, Olivia Chow, a book of condo-lences signed by people in his riding offi ce.

Most of the book was full of signatures and comments for the lead-er, who died Aug. 22 of cancer.

Crime from p4

‘Target therapies for inmates’

A 30-year-old Maple Ridge man was arrested Tuesday after police seized crack cocaine, heroin, and crystal methamphetamine from a hotel along Lougheed Highway.

A plainclothes policing team gained grounds to search a room at a hotel in the 2160- block of the Lougheed Highway on Tuesday, executing the warrant at approxi-mately 3:30 p.m.

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There’s good news and bad news in our

town along the Fraser. The good news is

there’s lots of people here looking after each other.

The bad news is there’s more folks to look after in Maple Ridge than we imagine.

Let’s begin with a big plus. It’s the commu-nity dinner that takes place in the CEED Cen-tre building on 223rd Street on Saturday evenings. It’s the street ministry work of volunteers, mostly from St. George’s Angli-can Church. They make soups, casseroles, and caldrons of hot coffee for anyone in the Ghetto who’s hungry.

Bill Pearson, a principal in this effort, tells me the huge stack of sandwiches was made by an 83-year-old woman whose helper is 89.

Robert Mitchell, a one-time church dea-con who lived and worked here, started all this some time ago. Before he died of brain cancer in 2010, Mitchell walked the streets, handing out sandwiches he made while dreaming of doing more. You can’t fi nd anybody here who doesn’t miss him.

“His goal was to fi nd a place where people could sit around a table and feel like our friends,” says Teri, Mitchell’s wife and a dinner coordinator. “Since we moved here, it’s been unbelievable. Robert would have been happy if that’s as far as the

program went.” That’s good news. It helps to be inside a

cozy building as the weather worsens, eat-ing food prepared by people who could be watching Wheel of Fortune on TV, but are here instead.

Rick Smith and Sue Elliot fi ll plates with spaghetti and baked beans someone deliv-ered in crock pots. Tonight, they’ll run out before everyone in the line is served. I ask Rick and Sue what brings them here.

“The dinner is the highlight of my week,” Smith says. “I can’t wait ’til Saturday night. I walk away feeling a better person.”

Elliot fi nds comfort in the feedback she hears from the people who come through the door. “One of them,” she recalls, “told me this was the only place where she re-ally feels respected. That’s a big reward for me.”

I heard the same thing from Cindy, another regular volunteer who asked me to man the coffee urn so she could talk to guests and get to know them better. Later, I spoke to Natasha as she sat with a plate on her lap. “I’m low-income,” she explains. “This program has helped me out, and the chilli [baked beans] is really sweet.”

Natasha asked Bill if she could help out in any way. Someone else mows the lawn here now. Giving back builds a community.

The bad news? “We’ve gone from 30 when we started this in July to 100 now,” Teri says. “It’s heartbreaking to see so many struggling.”

Many wear the signs of substance abuse. Others don’t fi t any stereotype.

“The clientele has changed,” says Teri. “These people are all on limited incomes.

Less than a handful have steady jobs, and not good paying ones. There are people here who live in trucks, and cars, or sleep on couches. There are others who live in camps; there’s quite a few camps out there.”

Melody is another regular volunteer who believes everyone deserves a helping hand. “We’re all precious,” she told me when I asked what brings here to the Dinner Program. And, “Robert asked me to get involved,” she adds.

Robert Mitchell, a recovered alcoholic, in-spired a lot of people here. There’s a story Teri tells about him that helps explain this.

“Robert understood what it was like to be destitute; when nobody wants anything to do with you. He’d take $40 from our bank account every day to buy someone a meal, get the tools a man needed if that got him a job, provide bus fair for someone who had to get to a clinic.”

“One night,” continues Teri, “we got a phone call one from a neighbour who said there was a young woman needing help curled up against the wall of our shop [motor repairs]. Robert drove her to the Cordova Detox Centre in Vancouver. Seven months later, we got a knock on the door.”

See Along the Fraser, p7

More need help than we imagine

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Pitt Meadows Coun. John Becker, in his bid to become mayor, has started a private phone line, called the “Talk to John Line,” to hear the “inter-ests, concerns and questions” of residents.

In his recorded message for the Talk to John Line, he also mentions his law fi rm, and the phone number for it – if you need to talk one of his lawyers, he says.

For what?Is Becker soliciting votes or clients?We thought he started the line for residents of

the city. It’s on his campaign webpage.To “effectively serve as mayor,” you’d think

Becker would want to come across neutral, self-less, to be able to separate business and poli-tics.

But his arrogance in this instance, that he doesn’t think voters can see through the thinly veiled advertisement for his business, is as-tounding, if not patronizing.

Just as is the overly congratulatory sentiments from fellow Liberals in a press release this week announcing the mayoral candidate as recipient of an award from the party for being, basically, a good Liberal.

If Becker really cares about the concerns of Pitt Meadows residents, then he shouldn’t be promoting his law fi rm under the guise of civic duty.

Did he learn nothing from Don MacLean, who forgot to disclose that his insurance agency was awarded the contract for all municipal vehicles?

Becker needs to understand that voters don’t care about his law fi rm. They care about their city, what he can do to help make it better, not whether or not he can help them with their wills and mortgages.

If he doesn’t get that, then he should step aside and let someone else who does be mayor.

If callers are confused, couldn’t they just say so and he’d call them back later, as promised?

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THE NEWSAlong the Fraser Jack Emberly

GETI FestGETI Fest, this Saturday, in Memorial Peace Park. I’ll be there telling my story, The Giant With Two Heads, along with my musical friend, the talented, Ms. Justus. Just after 12 noon.


The quality of mercy Osoyoos, the town that time forgotOne of the

nice things about get-

ting out of town is seeing other cities from an outsider’s eyes, unencum-bered by details, facts and boring considerations such as history and reality – as was the case with a recent trip to Osoyoos.

Winding down into the heat bowl on the Crowsnest Highway, you’re struck by one thing – the sun shines here. Most of the time. It’s warm. It’s dry. Orchards produce fruit and wine, with only a fraction of the natural potential tapped, and generate moun-tains of cash, augmented by constant ringing of cash registers for the tour-ist trade.

It’s one of the few deserts in Canada, and after spending a few hours there, you really wonder how we actually survive in the West Coast rainforest, mired in dark gloom and rain and fog 11 months of the year.

It’s rarely gloomy here. Paxil profi ts must plunge. How can you get down when the sun soaks the earth year-round? Can’t we just move Metro Vancouver into the Okanagan Valley?

As an outsider, though, you’re also struck by what you don’t see.

Given the place is a blast furnace of solar energy, you’d think photo-vol-taic panels and solar-thermal panels boasting the latest in Chinese technol-ogy would carpet the landscape.

In this desert town, if there are any, I couldn’t see them. Actually the only thing I could see was 1960s style hotels and motels fi lled with yahoo Albertans, revelling in some kind of a time warp. I half expected Elvis to zoom by in a 1957 Chevy convertible.

And I did see lots of green grass next to Osoyoos Lake and wondered about the fertilizer fl ow and if the community knows about drought-resistant landscaping.

It almost seems like the town time forgot.

It could capitalize even more on what it has that the rest of the coun-try doesn’t. Warmth. Sun. For most of the year. It could start with the high-way from Osoyoos to Penticton. Put some solar-powered street lights, call it the solar highway. Come to think of it, the whole province should do likewise. I think there are some dusty villages in Africa who use more solar power than we do.

It also makes you wonder about the natural wealth of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows and the assets we don’t know about that are evident to the

outsider.A recent trip to Whistler showed

how we should do things.On the twisty Sea to Sky Highway,

there are now bike lanes on both sides, allowing cyclists to ride the most beautiful highway in the world. Within two years, that Olympic high-way project spawned the Gran Fondo bike race, a bonanza for any tourism business along the Vancouver-to-Whistler route.

From Maple Ridge’s western bor-der (Pitt Meadows and Abbotsford already have done this), the Lougheed Highway is a no-brainer for a multi-use bike lane on both sides to prepare for the increasing numbers of electric bikes, scooters, motorized wheel-chairs, skateboards, bicycles and motorized bicycles that will be on our streets.

The shoulder’s already there. It just needs widening (to make it easier for me to pedal) and signs in a few places and a bit of money and you have 50 kilometres of bike lanes.

It could serve as the backbone for the Experience the Fraser Project that calls for recreational trails from Hope to Vancouver.

It’s just waiting for an outsider to tell us how to do it.

Phil Melnychuk is a reporter with the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News.

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HeartbreakFrom: Christina Hofmarks, posted on mapleridgenews.com.Re: A struggle for health care (The News, Sept. 16).I’ll be honest, I was pretty ignorant about everything a family has to go through day to day when dealing with a disabled person, but I was absolutely distraught after reading this article, realizing the heartbreaking struggles the Nagy family has had to go through just to keep their family together and, first and foremost, Brianne in a stable, loving environment. Bill and Kelly are amazing, selfless people and all they are asking for is what is best for their daughter. She has been at Fletcher House for 14 years, this is a second home to her, where she feels comfortable and has others around her that personally know ‘Breezy’ and how to care for her.

Along from p6“It was her. She said, ‘You helped me. I wanted to tell you

I’m clean now. I’m working, and I’ve reconnected with my family. I just wanted to ask if there’s anything I can do for you now.’”

There was. “Robert told her there was a car wash the next day to raise money for his street ministry. She showed up at 9 a.m. and stayed until one with a sign in her hand, directing people in.”

Two motorists had a special reason to get a car wash – the woman’s father and brother. “Each handed Robert a hundred dollar bill. They said, ‘Thank you for bringing our family together again.’”

Lines from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: “The qual-ity of mercy is not strain’d ... It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.”

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Jed, the blood hound, is single-minded.

He wants to work – sniff, sniff, sniff and track.

Jed has been back to this Pitt Meadows neighbourhood at least six times since he was first called in to look for Sookie, a missing Bengal house cat.

Jed’s owner, Al Ma-clellan of Pet Search-ers Canada, is in the business of finding lost dogs and cats.

The pair tracked Sookie’s scent to a cul-de-sac on 191B Avenue, off McMyn Road.

Jed could smell her on the grass just out-side a block of apart-ment, but then the scent disappears.

“Either someone or something picked her up,” says Langely-based Maclellan, who was paid for an initial search by Sookie’s owner, but has been returning to the neigh-bourhood on his own dime because he’s sure the cat’s nearby.

“There are no signs of predator attack. If any cat’s going to get away from a coyote, it’s a Bengal. They are very agile and have a wild instinct in them.”

Maclellan grew up on a game farm in Ontar-io, where he learned to hunt and track with his father.

It wasn’t until he lost his own dog that he re-alize he could perhaps use dogs to find lost pets.

The recent finds listed on his website

include Jody, a Chi-huahua, who escaped from a backyard in Cloverdale but was sniffed out by Jed in 20 minutes; Boo, a Persian cat missing for four days who was found in two hours; and Buck, a Labrador- German Shepherd cross who was lost in Maple Ridge for two days but found by Jed in two hours.

The finds listed don’t include the pets Ma-clellan has located, but who’ve met their demise in the jaws of a coyote, cougar or bob cat.

Just recently, RCMP warned the public about cats being muti-lated in Maple Ridge.

“A lot of pet own-ers just want that closure,” says Maclel-lan, who also uses trail cameras, puts up weather-proof posters, scours free online list-ings and will even set up a trap to capture an

elusive pet.To most people, pets

are family and Maclel-lan doesn’t mind get-ting dragged by his bloodhounds through

thick bush, muck, snow, up mountains and into marshes to find them.

Sookie, who liked to stroll near her owners’ townhouse complex during the day, most likely scaled a fence and wandered on the side walk along Mc-Myn Ave. before stroll-ing into the cul-de-sac where her scent disap-pears.

Maclellan was called

in five days after she went missing, on Aug. 27, and used Sookie’s bed to find her distinct scent.

Tori Mansfield, who got Sookie as a gift for her birthday last year, isn’t ready to give up on her Bengal with piercing green eyes. She’s positive Sookie, who is quite the look-er, has been stolen.

“Life without Sookie has been tragic. Not knowing where she is or if she’s being treated OK breaks my heart,” says Mansfield.

“We will never get another animal, noth-ing could replace her. I can’t even look at pictures of her I get too upset. I am hop-ing for a miracle that someone will be kind enough to bring her back to us.”

• Contact Tori at 604-790-8939 or Pe-tsearchers Canada at petseachers.webs.com if you find Sookie.

Searching for Sookie the cat


Pet tracker Al Maclellan and his bloodhound Jed.


Hounds called in to look for missing cats

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Calling the devices a “threat our security and privacy, health and safe-ty and our pocketbook,” MacDonald wants people to be able to choose what kind of meter will be in-stalled in their home – wired or wireless.

“Right now, there are alternatives available in the way of wired de-vices.

“At the very least, we’d like to have a wired me-ter be made available to people who choose to have a wireless model.”

She points out that while there are many arguments showing the safety of smart meters, there are just as many that raise questions about their safety.

While MacDonald her-self uses a cellphone for business, she doesn’t have a microwave oven or WiFi in her house.

“I have a business so I have to have a cell-phone.”

In her presentation to council last week, Mac-Donald says wireless information is insecure and can be hacked, while

she says in Ontario the meters have increased energy use.

“This radiation is un-wanted and these me-ters are non-consensual. It’s undemocratic.”

She wanted council to write to B.C. Health Minister Mike de Jong, requesting the morato-rium. Individual hom-eowners who don’t want their meters replaced can call B.C. Hydro and ask to be placed on the delay-install list.

B.C. Hydro has already started the conversion process and plans on completing it by Decem-ber 2012. The conversion program will cost $930 million, but is expected to save $70 million, mainly

through reduced energy theft, over three years.

B.C. Hydro says the meters are active for about a total of a minute per day and says the ex-posure to a smart meter over its 20-year lifespan is equivalent to a 30-min-ute cellphone call. Data encryption will be used to ensure security.

MacDonald says Victoria, Langley and Nanaimo, as well as smaller municipali-ties around B.C., have already asked for the moratorium, however, Maple Ridge will wait until more information is available following the Union of B.C. Munici-palities convention this weekend.

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All Holly Long and her fam-ily want is to follow the recom-mendations of a hydrologist and spread gravel on their east Ma-ple Ridge property, build a new house and barn so stormwater runs back into a ditch and soaks back into the aquifer.

But Maple Ridge council disagrees and recently nixed sending an application to the Agricultural Land Commission to haul 47,305 cubic metres of structural fi ll on to Long’s four-hectare lot at 28487 – 108th Ave.

And what bothers Long just as much is that council made its decision without seeing the hydrologist’s report.

The family wants to build a new home, garage and farm-hand residence and a barn on the property. They’re selling their property in Mission where they also raise a few cattle and want to continue the operation at their new residence.

To improve drainage and al-low construction of a home with a basement and a smaller footprint and make it easier to install geothermal heating, they want to raise the elevation on which the buildings will sit as well as a portion of the land

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Ridge only wants to allow the elevation raised under the im-mediate footprint of the new buildings.

According to a district staff report, despite a reduction in the proposed amount of fi ll to be hauled, the application still should be denied, and says that the reduced amount of 34,983 cubic metres across a quarter of the site is still more than needed for construction of the buildings.

Long says she hasn’t received any stop-work orders from the district but doesn’t know what to do now and has been told by the Agricultural Land Com-mission to get an agrologist’s report.

“It’s taking us months and a lot of money to work between the agencies.”

An earlier district report said stop-work orders were placed on the property, but that has since been corrected and ver-bal notifi cation only was given, with the work being stopped as a result.

In their own report to council, the family points out traffi c al-ready uses the road, both indus-trial and residential.

She also points out that as owners of AT&H Industries, they have the expertise for haul-ing the gravel and bringing it on to the site safely.

While a district staff report

also says residents are worried about the effects on their water wells, a hydrology report com-missioned by the owners says the sediment control plan is ad-equate and adds that there will be enough groundwater to sup-ply a deep well on site, although the report doesn’t specifi cally address effects on the aquifer.

District staff also note that the report doesn’t address soil compaction and how that might affect the underground water supply and suggests that a prop-erly designed stormwater man-agement system would achieve the same effect without hauling large volumes of gravel.

Long pointed out that initially, the family proposed just bring-ing in fi ll for beneath the foot-print of the buildings but were told by the district to get a re-port, which led to the expanded footprint.

The ALC also says that fi ll hauled in for buildings shouldn’t exceed .2 ha while the area that will be raised by the fi lling is 1.36 ha.

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“It’s taking us months and a lot of money to work between the agencies.” Holly Long

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B.C. Hydro crews will be able to respond to emergencies more quickly and store their material and equip-ment more easily when a 25,000-sq.-foot build-ing at the north end of

256th Street in Maple Ridge’s industrial area is complete.

Once fi nished in early 2013, the LEED (Lead-ership in Energy and Environmental Design) building will give Hydro

crews a more perma-nent, spacious building to serve as a base for crews in the area.

Currently, B.C. Hydro uses a temporary build-ing located at its substa-tion on 216th Street and

Dewdney Trunk Road.But space there is

limited and the new building will allow more manpower and material, easier access and better response during power emergen-

cies. A few years after the building opens, about 15 to 17 people should be based at the 256th Street location, said regional manager for substations Wayne Martell.

“We need to have this new facility there.”

Some of the green fea-tures of the building:

• using rainwater from the roof to use for toilet and urinal fl ush-ing;

• solar collectors cap-ture heat from the sun to be used for the radi-ant heating and domes-

tic hot water;• green roof, with

vegetation to mitigate building heat loss and gain as well as to im-prove the longevity of the roofi ng membrane;

• building will last 50-plus years and re-main functional follow-ing a seismic or other natural disaster event.

New B.C. Hydro building being built on 256th St.

As set out in Sections 403, 405, 406 and 407 of the Local Government Act, the annual Tax Sale will be held in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Hall at 11995 Haney Place on Monday, September 26, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.

Purchasers of properties at Tax Sale are subject to tax under the Property Purchase Tax Act. This tax will be calculated on the market value of the property at the time title is transferred to the purchaser. The administrator of the Property Tax Act will bill the purchaser directly for this tax.

Payment for Tax Sale purchases must be by cash or certifi ed funds and paid within two hours following the completion of the Tax Sale.

Purchasers are advised that the Corporation of the District of Maple Ridge will be an active bidder at this Tax Sale.

The following parcels will be offered for sale by Public Auction unless delinquent taxes, with interest, are paid prior to the tax sale.

Properties potentially being offered for sale are not subject to inspection prior to this sale. Please respect the privacy of the owners of the following parcels:

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Olson preyed on vic-tims across the Lower Mainland and dumped bodies in remote ar-eas from Chilliwack to Whistler.

The first victim, 12-year-old Christine Weller, was abducted near her Surrey home while riding her bike in November of 1980. Her body was found on Christmas Day, stran-gled and stabbed.

Three others were also picked up in Surrey – 13-year-old Colleen Daignault, 16-year-old Sandra Lynn Wolfsteiner and nine-year-old Simon Partington.

Daryn Johnsrude, 16, Judy Kozma, 14, and Raymond King Jr., 15, all vanished from New Westminster. Ada Anita Court, 13, and Sigrun Arnd, 18, were picked up in Coquit-lam.

Louise Chartand, 17, was picked up walking in Maple Ridge and Terry Lyn Carson, 15, was found strangled in Chilliwack.

The 1982 deal secur-ing Olson’s guilty plea – and sparing families of his victims the pain of a long trial – in-cluded a controversial $100,000 trust fund payment to his wife and infant son.

Olson led police to the undiscovered bod-ies of his victims.

Outraged families felt Olson profited from his crimes.

Despite being incar-cerated, Olson didn’t disappear from the spotlight. He repeat-edly applied for parole and was denied each of the three times - the last denial in 2010.

King blames the me-dia for giving Olson a platform and turning him into a “folk hero.”

“I would hope people make an effort to re-member all 11 of those kids who died,” King said.

“I don’t understand why such a big hoopla is being made of the fact that he’s got can-cer. This is a man who is not worth the time it takes to say his name. The focus should be on the failure of the jus-tice system.”

– with fi les from Jeff Nagel

Focus on victims,justice systemOlson from front

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“If Adrian Dix wants to come golf in beauti-ful Pitt Meadows, I’d be happy to sling him a beer and feed him a hot dog or two,” Becker said.

The press release also noted that Becker has recently limited his “other civic interests” to actively pursue the mayor’s position.

He resigned as presi-dent of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows B.C. Liberal riding as-sociation last week and also stepped down as chair of the Meadow-ridge School board or directors.

He’s also launched a campaign website that displays catchy slogans, such as “Becker Is Bet-ter,” and endorsements, including one from Conservative MP Mark Strahl.

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Jacynthe Geschke has a soft voice and a shy smile.

When she makes eye contact, it is with a ner-vous look. Her voice is hesitant and faint.

Jacynthe has autism, a developmental disorder that affects a person’s

ability to communicate with other people or to have normal social in-teraction.

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behavior issues.However, 26-year-old

Jacynthe has got the bet-ter of her disability and will be receiving a Com-munity Achievement award at the second an-nual International Natu-rally Autistic People Awards and Convention this weekend in North Vancouver.

This award is one of 11 being given out to

autistic individuals and organizations nominat-ed from eight countries around the world.

Jacynthe is among nominees from Canada, the U.S., India, Austra-lia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Scot-land and Germany. She is one of two Canadians to receive an award.

“She’s come so far and she’s out there in our

geographical communi-ty, visible and helping”, said her mother, Laurie Geschke. “She is very active in the autistic community. She helps there by mentoring and modeling”

Jacynthe works for ANCA Consulting, a company that educates autistic people, their families and the commu-nity about the disorder

with help from a support staff.

She travels for two to three days a week to the Sunshine Coast to work with Anthony, the son of ANCA C o n s u l t i n g president Le-onora Gregory-Collura, who is autistic himself and is confi ned to a wheelchair after a car crash.

“She started fi rst de-veloping through the program like everybody else, and then I noticed that she actually had a talent in being able to read other autistic indi-viduals or people with other challenges,” says Gregory-Collura.

“She just seemed to have a natural knack, you know, very gentle, very understanding, but also just intuitive. Particularly with little children and individuals like my son who would be considered non-ver-bal.”

During her time with Anthony, Jacynthe says they play board games and go for walks.

“It was actually Ja-cynthe that got my son to start using his hands again,” says Gregory-Collura.

“As a peer friend, she was the one who taught him to play cards again. She was the one who held his elbow, again without anyone telling her, to paint. Because that is something she loves herself. And now he is at a stage that he can play board games and take the little coun-ters and what-not and that was all due to Ja-cynthe.”

She also volunteers at her church, Southgate

Church on Laity Street. “Right now I organize

communion and get stuff for it ready,” explains Ja-cynthe. “I mostly prepare and clean up and organize, like phone people and get people to serve (communion).”

“It makes me feel useful and helpful,” she says.

“She is showing that there is life after an au-tistic diagnosis,” says her mom.

Opening ceremonies for the awards take place Friday in West Vancouver.

The gala awards din-ner and fundraiser takes place at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Families affected by autism will be able to use their autism funding through The Ministry of Children and Family De-velopment to attend the entire weekend.

“It is important for peo-ple to come. And I’ll tell you why,” says Gregory-Collura. “Even though you are seeing success-ful autistic adults at this event, their families have worked very, very hard to see the potential in their child and not get swayed by the negativity that’s out there.

“I think this could be very supportive for folks out there because they will have the chance to actually speak to the par-ents of these very, very talented individuals who now run their own busi-nesses, I might ad.”

It’s an opportunity to learn from others who took the challenge, to live life and not be afraid of it.

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Public Notice is given to the electors of the District of Maple Ridge that nominations for the offi ces of:

Mayor (1 to be elected)Councillor (6 to be elected)School Trustee (5 to be elected)for a 3-year term December 2011, to December 2014, will be received by the Chief Election Offi cer or a designated person, as follows:

From: 9:00 am Tuesday, October 4th, 2011To: 4:00 pm Friday, October 14th, 2011At the offi ces of the District of Maple Ridge, located at 11995 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, B.C. during regular offi ce hours.Nomination documents are available at the offi ce of the District of Maple Ridge or on the District website www.mapleridge.ca

QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICEA person is qualifi ed to be nominated, elected, and to hold offi ce as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria:

Canadian citizen; •18 years of age or older; •Resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immedi- •ately before the day nomination papers are fi led;Not disqualifi ed by the Local Government Act or any other •enactment from voting in an election in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding offi ce.

VOTER REGISTRATIONResident ElectorsThe District of Maple Ridge will be using the Provincial list of voters as our List of Electors. If you are registered as a pro-vincial voter, your name will appear on the District of Maple Ridge’s List of Electors for the November 19, 2011 local elec-tion. To check if you are on the List, you may visit the web-site www.elections.bc.ca or contact the Election Offi ce. If you are not on the List, but qualify to be, you may register at any voting place on Election Day by providing the necessary identifi cation.Non-resident Property ElectorsA person who resides outside of Maple Ridge, but owns prop-erty in Maple Ridge, may be eligible to vote as a non-resident property elector. If you qualify, it is strongly recommended that you register in advance of general voting day at the Offi ces of

the District of Maple Ridge during regular offi ce hours. Please contact the election offi ce for information. You may also reg-ister on Election Day at any one of the Voting Places.Public Inspection of List of ElectorsCommencing Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 until the close of general voting for the election on Saturday, November 19, 2011 a copy of the list of registered electors will, upon signa-ture, be available for public inspection at the District offi ces during regular offi ce hours.Protection of PrivacyElectors may request that their personal information be omitted from, or obscured on the List of Electors to protect the privacy or security of the elector. This request must be made prior to 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, October 4th, 2011.Objection to Registration of an ElectorAn objection to the registration of a person as an elector may only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector of the District of Maple Ridge, and only on the basis that the person whose name appears has died, or is not qualifi ed to be registered as an elector of the District of Maple Ridge. A written objection must be received by the Chief Election Offi cer before 4:00 p.m., Friday, October 14, 2011.

MAIL BALLOT VOTINGThe electors of the District of Maple Ridge are now given the option to vote by mail ballot if:

You have a physical disability, illness or injury that affects •your ability to vote at another voting opportunity; orYou expect to be absent from the District of Maple Ridge •on general voting day and at the times of all advance voting opportunities Saturday, November 5, and Wednesday, November 9th, 2011.

A person wishing to vote by mail ballot must apply by giving their name and address to the Chief Election Offi cer or to the person designated by the Chief Election Offi cer during the period commencing October 28, 2011 and ending at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 19, 2011.

FURTHER INFORMATIONFurther information on the foregoing may be obtained by contacting the election offi ce at 604-467-7423 or [email protected]

Ceri MarloChief Election Offi cer

DISTRICT OF MAPLE RIDGE2011 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS

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Pitt Meadows taxpayers are willing to shell out a little ex-tra money for more recreation facilities in the city, including an indoor pool.

Although the appetite for ad-ditional facilities and programs has decreased since 2008, a parks and recreation survey conducted in May found that 24 per cent of people polled still want more services.

A quarter of them want a new indoor swimming pool, and 70 per cent would pay additional taxes for it.

Another 27 per cent are will-ing to pay up to $20 or more than $40 a year, while a larger portion – 37 per cent – would between $20 and $40 per year.

Usage of parks, recreation facilities or recreation pro-grams has remained steady or slightly increased since the last survey.

Households using recreation facilities have increased to 88 per cent from 85 per cent in 2008.

Residents are also satisfied with the quality and range of parks and recreation facilities, with 83 per cent of those sur-veyed rating the services as “very good.”

Sister cityThe City of Pitt Meadows now

has a sibling in Korea.Council directed the mayor to

sign a certifi cate Tuesday, of-fi cially recognizing Gapyeung-gun as a sister city.

Located in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, Gapyeong was the scene of the Battle of Kapyong, a major clash during the Korean War.

The Korea Veterans Associa-tion pitched the idea to council in November to recognize the contribution of Canadian Armed Forces during the Korean war.

Gapyeong already has two sis-ter cities – Gangnam-gu, South Korea and Cedar City, Utah.

It will be the fi rst time Pitt Meadows has twinned with an-other city.

Eight municipalities in Metro Vancouver do not have a sister or twinning relationship with another city.

The others include Delta, North Vancouver, Anmore, Bo-wen Island, Langley City, Lions Bay, Port Coquitlam, and West Vancouver.

New Westminster and Vancou-ver have the most sister cities, at fi ve each.

Property rezonedA rezoning application that will

see another mixed-use develop-ment go up along Harris Road in Pitt Meadows got third reading at city council on Tuesday.

The property at 12409 Harris Road will be rezoned to CD-30 to permit the construction of a four-storey apartment building with 42 residential units, and ap-proximately 2,000 square feet of ground level commercial space.

The city initially received a re-zoning application for the prop-erty in February 2009 after the original Chives Restaurant prop-erty was merged with an unused portion of Telus property.

Since that time, city staff has been working with the applicant to come up with an attractive building design that would pro-vide residential density, com-mercial space and suffi cient parking – all on a relatively nar-row lot.

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This is a tale of two aunts and their recent

experiences as they have found them-selves with no options but to go into a full-care home.

It’s an interest-ing story because it contains many of the complicated issues that are part of a fam-ily’s decision-making process when change is inevitable.

The fi rst aunt was 102 years old when her foot got tangled up in her sheet as she got out of bed and she took a big tumble, shattering her hip so badly that she would be forever confi ned to a wheelchair, unable to get herself in or out of her chair for any reason.

Prior to the accident, she had been widowed for about six years and lived in her own home, by choice, for eight months of the year, spending the four harshest winter months in her son’s home.

She liked her inde-pendence and was quite capable of look-ing after herself.

Her days were spent keeping the fi re in her wood stove going and talking to others on the phone.

She was very social, although she didn’t get out much unless some-one else took her.

We were all worried, when it was obvious she would not be com-ing home from the hos-pital, that she would pine away in a home.

But instead, she has blossomed there, en-joying the company of staff and the constant hum of activity around her.

Her roommate situ-ation has been a little unsettling for us, but

she takes it all in stride and is as happy if not happier, as she was in her own home.

The second aunt, 86 years old, recently had a knee operation, which resulted in some complications that made it impos-sible to return to the two-storey house of her daughter, where she had been living for the last couple of years.

She has been wid-owed for almost 40 years and has lived a very independent life-style up to about two years ago, when her mobility made it easier for the family to take her in than constantly be going between resi-dences.

The diffi culty for her is that the care facility runs on a very differ-ent schedule than she does.

For much of her life she has preferred to stay up very late at night and sleep much of the day, but that is

not the rhythm of an institution.

The caregiv-ers who come to bathe her at 7 a.m. are not exactly met with joy and gratitude and, as might be expected, there is no one on staff going around giving warm baths at 2 a.m., when she’d like one.

Additionally, she’s a fi nicky eater and likes to have attention the second she feels she needs it, regardless of the time of day.

Put institutional food and busy staff with those needs and you have a recipe for unhappiness.

In her words, she is anxious to either get better enough to get out or to die.

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Putting a parent into the care of an institution is an incred-ibly diffi cult decision, sometimes necessitated by physical health issues, sometimes by mental health issues and

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Putting a parent into the care of an institution is an incredibly difficult decision, sometimes necessitated by physical health issues, sometimes by mental health issues and sometimes, through the choice of a parent who might prefer the busy and social atmosphere of a home full of his or her peers.

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THE NEWSServing Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows since 1978


The Pitt Meadows Fire Department credits the hiring of two unionized fi refi ghters for making the city safer, citing their addition for a drop in calls involving burn-

ing complaints and false alarms.

Responsible for fi re prevention, education and maintaining equip-ment, the fi re safety technicians have taken those tasks away from the department’s paid on-call volunteers.

“The volunteers can

now focus the time they spend away from their families on calls and training,” said fi re chief Don Jolley.

The fi rst fi re safety tech was hired in the summer of 2009 and the second in fall 2010. Both work during business hours Monday to Fri-day.

“They add to our con-tingent of fi refi ghters during the weekdays when we typically have the lowest number of volunteers available be-cause most of them are at work,” said Jolley.

The technicians have helped educate farmers about burning and resi-dents about the risk of grass fi res, leading to a signifi cant drop in those calls.

Jolley projects the city should log 25 burning complaints this year, compared to 60 in 2010. The department has also seen a 30 per cent increase in applications for burning permits, which shows that peo-ple are ready to comply with the rules, despite the associated costs.

The technicians have also freed up assistant chief Brad Perrie, who used to handle educa-tion, but now has more

time to conducted in-spections.

“What we are fi nd-ing is [Perrie] has been able to deal with a lot of issues that were com-pounding. Now our false alarms are down and fi res are down in build-ings. The public is act-ing safer,” Jolley said.

“The community is safer and that’s always a positive thing.”

In a recent report to city council, Jolley noted the department’s transition from a volun-teer model to a paid on-call model in January has been seamless.

Previously, an an-nual grant of $210,000 was paid by the city to volunteer fi refi ghters, who divided it up them-selves, according to hours worked.

The paid on-call mod-el eliminated the grant and fi refi ghters who attend a call or train-ing are now paid a wage hourly.

It meant a $50,000 increase to the depart-ment’s million-dollar budget.

“There have been next to no differences inter-nally and outwardly,” Jolley said. “To the pub-lic, there has been abso-lutely no difference.”

City safer because of fi re techniciansUnionized positions are being credited for a drop in calls


Fire safety technician Mike Larsson practises with the jaws of life on a donated car in the parking lot of the Pitt Meadows fire department.


Earthquake drill in U.S., New Zealand, B.C.

The force of nature keeps making itself appar-ent. A jolt here. A tremor there. A 6.4 magnitude earthquake off Vancouver Island Sept. 9, an apoc-alyptic earthquake in Japan six months ago.

With shaking going on all over, more people will pay attention to the B.C. Shakeout drill this Oct. 20 at exactly 10:20 a.m.

This time, they’ll join millions of others on the U.S. West Coast and New Zealand, all part of the Ring of Fire, and take part in the Drop, Cover and Hold-On drill that will increase chances of surviv-ing the big one.

The drill takes only a minute and offers resi-dents, businesses and agencies the opportunity to practise the recommended safety technique of dropping down beneath a table or chair and holding on to that while the shaking is going on. Running outside or standing beneath a doorway aren’t recommended.

While it takes only minutes, people are encour-aged to register for the drill by visiting www.shakeoutbc.ca or e-mailing [email protected].

According to the Shakeout B.C. organizing com-mittee, B.C. has one of the most active seismic faults in the world and has about 1,200 quakes a year.

People also are encouraged to review their emergency plans and supplies should a quake hit. With possible disruption of modern conveniences, people should have water and food and supplies on hand to last a few days following the quake.

A Shake Out drill already took place in January, but the date now has been changed to October so it coincides with drills in other countries.

District of Maple Ridge staff will be participat-ing in the Shake Out drill and encourage the pub-lic to do the same.

The City of Pitt Meadows is not joining in the Shakeout drill because it had one in January. However, it will resume the drill next October 2012.

Sign up today and get a free $50 gift card.It’s our way of saying, “Thanks.” And also, “Here’s fifty bucks.”

You deserve a little something — just for being you. Well, being you, and

opening a Free Chequing, Free Debit and More Account.TM Sign up at our

Coquitlam, Westwood or Meadowtown branches before September 17, and

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debit card transactions, no monthly fee, no minimum balance requirement

and this free gift, why not go ahead and sign up today? You deserve it.

Visit www.coastcapitalsavings.com to find the Coquitlam or Pitt Meadows

location nearest you.

Not open to current members. Offer subject to satisfying account opening criteria. Not valid for online account openings. Limit of one gift card per new membership. The gift card is subject to British Columbia gift card legislation and the terms and conditions of the Coquitlam Centre gift card. Offer expires September 17, 2011. Coast Capital Savings Credit Union may cancel gift promotion at any time.


Community Calendar

C ommunity Calendar lists events in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. Notices are free to

local non-profit groups courtesy of The News. Drop off details to 22328 119 Ave., fax to 604-463-4741 or e-mail [email protected] at least a week before the event. Include a contact name and number. (No submissions by phone.) Listings appear as space permits. For guaranteed publication, ask our clas-sifi ed department at 604-467-1122 about non-profi t rates.

Saturday, Sept. 24• Shop at the Haney Farm-

ers’ Market, there will be an abundance of fresh produce and fruit. Visit the MRDBIA Home and Décor event in Spirit Square and

then enjoy the GETI Festival in front of the Bandstand. The Friends in Need Food Bank are at the Mar-ket. Be generous. Memorial Peace Park on 224th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Golden Ears Transitions Initiative festival takes place from noon to 9 p.m. at Memorial Peace Park in downtown Maple Ridge. There will be a wide range of music from a new generation of local song writers like Rory MacRury and David Parent, to the ever popular jazz singer Wendy Biscuit, and farmers market favou-rite Blues men John Marvin and Dave Logan. For sign up page and more info please visit http://www.petertam.ca/html/geti.html. For information on GETI, visit http://goldenearstransitioninitiative.ning.

com/ • The Maple Ridge Music

Society opens its new season with a concert by the internationally renowned Lafayette String Quartet from Victoria at 8 p.m. For tickets and more information call Josine at 604-467-3162.

Sunday, Sept. 25• The Pitt Meadows Communi-

ty Association is holding it’s first general meeting at 6:30 p.m. at No. 202 10958 Barnston View Road, Pitt Meadows. Memberships are currently being accepted. Annual family memberships are $20, and business members are $40.

• Everyone is invited to celebrate Rivers Day at Kanaka Creek from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. To reach this

site, travel to the intersection of the east end of Haney Bypass and Lougheed Highway, then head east to River Road. The parking area is immediately east of the railway crossing. Activities at this free event include canoe tours of lower Kanaka Creek, and volunteers will be on hand to explain the flora, fauna and history of this area and how you can become involved with its preservation. The event is co-hosted by KEEPS, Metro Vancouver Parks, and Bell-Irving Hatchery.

Monday, Sept. 26• Ridge Meadows Child

Development Centre is holding its 22nd annual general meeting at 6 p.m., 22610 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge. Please RSVP to

604-463-0881.• The Fraser Valley Rhododen-

dron Society meets at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrews Heritage Hall, 22279 116th Avenue. Guest Speaker is Colleen Boyczuk of Aldergrove Nursery speaking about plants for fall colour and winter interest. New members and guests are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Tuesday, Sept. 27• Come out and enjoy free Celtic

music sessions with Nigel Tucker and friends. You are welcome to bring an instrument, sing a song, or just join in the enjoyment and fun. The music session takes place in lobby of the ACT on 224th in Maple Ridge, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 28• The Maple Ridge, Pitt

Meadows, Katzie, Seniors Network presents a workshop on practical, stress-relieving resources available to help you find the right care for your aging parents. This is the second in a series of six presentations in the Aging Gracefully Speaker Series. Learn about accessing health department services, the long-term care assess-ment process, available services and costs, senior’s housing, and much more. Free event. Refresh-ments provided. Meeting takes place at The Maple Ridge Public Library from 7 to 9 p.m. Please register at 604-786-7404 or e-mail [email protected]

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It would be a shame for any garden to lose these vibrant spring colours, simply because of a few leaves, when there are many ways to overcome the problem.

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Winter heather is a natural for bulb com-binations because it fl owers from November until late April, and then it fl ushes out with lots of new growth to screen bulb foliage. Try combining it with some miniature narcissus, like ‘Minnow’, ‘Hawera’ and ‘Jack Snipe’. Early blooming ‘Star Magnolias’ (Magnolia stellata) could be greatly enhanced with an underplanting of white narcissus like ‘Ice Follies’. When the leaves fl ush out on the magnolia, they would nicely conceal the narcissus leaves.

Larger magnolias should not be left out, either. ‘Saucer Magnolias’ (M. soulangiana), that often lose their big blossoms premature-ly due to heavy spring winds or rains, would be greatly enhanced by an underplanting of beautiful salmon ‘Angelique’ tulips.

Flowering quince looks spectacular in any spring garden, but a surrounding plant-ing of early double tulips would be a real classy touch. Try ‘Peach Blossom’ around the whites and pinks and the yellow ‘Monte Carlo’ around the orange and scarlet variet-ies.

White spiraeas offer all sorts of opportuni-ties with red tulips. Spiraea thunbergii would be a knockout with the early tulip, ‘Red Emperor’. The mid-season ‘Snow Mound’ (S. nipponica tosaensis) would look great with red ‘Darwin’ tulips, and the late-fl owering ‘Bridal Wreath’ spirea (S. arquta) would

be nice combined with a red lily-fl owering tulip. Spiraeas are great for covering up tulip foliage.

Don’t forget about broad-leafed plants, either. One of the most overlooked sun- or shade-loving plants is the ‘Oregon Grape’ (Mahonia aquifolium). Its yellow fl owers and green holly-like foliage would combine beau-tifully with the soft yellow narcissus ‘Carl-ton’. Euonymus ‘Emerald n’ Gold’ and white/green ‘Gaiety’ provide a wonderful opportu-nity for tulip planting. Bright coloured early single or trumpet tulips could be under-planted for a delightful effect each spring. If the new growth was left untrimmed, it would cover dying tulip foliage, and then both could be pruned at once to save time.

Long-blooming, low-growing shrubs like potentillas and dwarf spiraeas offer tre-mendous potential for daffodil and tulip

plantings. The red, white, orange and pink blossoms that begin in late April can provide a neat contrast for late fl owering varieties of bulbs, or the green foliage can offer a back-drop, then cover for the fl owers and leaves.

Hostas and ferns also provide good foli-age cover for daffodil and tulip leaves in areas with morning or dappled sunshine.

Frankly, the potential for fabulous com-binations is unlimited. This fall, take a new look at the opportunities for using your tulip and narcissus bulbs to enhance your existing trees and shrubs. In doing so, you not only create a new dimension in colour schemes, you can also conceal the foliage that too often can spoil the fresh look of your spring gardens.

Brian Minter owns and operates Minter Gardens just outside of Chilliwack.

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the inviting livingroom, updated white kitchen with newer appliances, spacious eating area

with sliding doors to the deck, 2 bedrooms, oversized laundry room with room for den/

hobby area. All this for $199,800

NO STAIRS!This Westside ground level townhouse is pretty special. Beautifully updated with quality laminate fl ooring, slate facing around the fi replace, tile countertops and updated appliances in the kitchen, 1205 sq. ft., 2 bedrooms, 2 washroom, oversized laundry room, enclosed garage, very private backyard, West Maple Ridge. Bring us your offer!

$266,900$266,900

$880,000$880,000

Enjoy the good life! Waterski, kayak, boat, swim right out your backdoor. Beautiful piece of property, 1/3 acre walk-on waterfront with its own private dock well away from the busy noise of Lougheed Highway. The house was a grand dame in her day, vaulted post and beam ceilings, big windows, over 3000 sq. ft. ...but it needs work to bring it back...or this property presents the opportunity to build your own dream home. Call today!

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11933 224th St., Maple Ridge604.467.5000 Brookside Realty

Brookside Realty 11933 224th Street Maple Ridge

OPEN HOUSESUN 2 - 4

* 3 bdrm ~ 3 baths* 1784 Sq. ft 2 storey* Set on 7191 s f lot* GARY OAKS* Cape Cod style home* Freshly painted* Newer roof* 23’10X22 dble garage* Centrally located

$459,000

12010 Dover Street

* Showhome condition!* 2 storey+bsment T/H* 3 bdrms ~ 2.5 baths* Updated kitchen* 1965 square feet* New appliances* GREAT complex!* Minutes to town* Walk to W. C. Exp

$369,000

26-23343 Kanaka Wy

OPEN HOUSESAT 2 - 4

OPEN HOUSESUN 2 - 4

* Gated drive* 5 bdrms ~ 4 baths* 5 years young* In-ground pool* 4000 square feet* Fully fi nished bsmnt* Gorgeous kitchen!* Too many details to list* A MUST SEE!

$579,000

32910 - 5th Ave.

OPEN HOUSESUN 11 - 1

* Cedar Valley Estates* 2 storey ~ 3073 s. f.* 5 bdrms ~ 3 baths* AC/heat pump* Custom gourmet kitchen* Home theatre room* Sec sys with camera* Custom shower/ensuite* 7 years young

$435,000

33022 Phelps Ave.

OPEN HOUSESUN 2 - 4

* 4 bdrm+den ~ 3 baths* 4481 Sq. feet* Huge master bdrm* BAKER RIDGE* BRAND NEW* Gorgeous kitchen!* Private deck w views!* H/wood/marble fl oors* Minutes to all amen.

$629,000

24903 108th Ave.

OPEN HOUSESUN 2 - 4

* COLLEGE HEIGHTS* 2700 F T 2 level* Set on 6544 s f lot* 6 bdrms ~ 3 baths* Bsmnt soundproofed* Bsmnt sep entry* Views of Mt Baker* Fully fenced b/yard* Close to schools etc

$419,900

33719 Grewall Cr.

OPEN HOUSESAT 2 - 4

* 5 bdrm+den ~ 3 baths* 2476 Sq. feet* Updated kitchen* Walk to Harry Hooge* Large sunny deck* Private, fenced b/yard* Bsment w sep entry* RV Parking* Minutes to all amen.

$514,900

22982 - 125A Ave

OPEN HOUSE SAT 2 - 4

* SILVER VIEWS* 3 lvl with 3995 s f* 5 bdrms ~ 4 baths* 6029 s f lot* Great room plan* Kitchen w granite* Fully fenced b/yard* Mountain/valley views* Bsmnt fi n w. sep entry

$719,000

13752 - 232A St

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11933 224th St., Maple Ridge

Brookside RealtyCHAD AUGUST604-318-5254 [email protected]

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Where Nature Sleeps

12680 239th Street (Davison Pool area)

V863285

River Road Estates V906477

#32 11442 Best St

One of the rare homes that come available in Maple Ridges fi nest gated adult oriented community. Enjoy the beautiful craftsmanship that this “Falcon Home” built home offers. Well planned 2 storey with walkout basement oozes with many added features from Great room with ski-lite vaulted ceilings, Gourmet kitchen with beautiful Cabinetry, wood crown and granite counters. Upper level offers Master bedroom with walk in closet and 5 piece ensuite, 2nd bedroom with full en suite and laundry room with cupboard with sink. Lower level includes guest bedroom, full bathroom plus large rec room with wet bar opening to private yard with patios, covered sun deck. Come have a look at this beautiful home You may just have to buy it. $599,900

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One bedroom and den starting in low 200s, two bedroom starting at 259,900.

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Flat 8.2 acres on quiet street• views of Golden Ears• Backs onto Alouette River/• DikeClose to Pitt River & Golden • Ears Bridge

PRIME PM ACREAGE

Call Lisa at 604-970-2209$784,900

Sharpe Rd.

$619,900

4 bdrm 2 storey with walk out • basementGranite counters & • hardwood throughoutQuality builder, quality fi nishings!• Stainless steel appliances• Great Family neighbourhood•

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11179 Creekside St.• PRICE

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Executive 2 storey with full • walk out bsmtGranite gourmet kitchen w/ SS • appliancesHardwood throughout• 3,434 sq. ft. total w/4 bdrms• Finished & ready to move in!•

$686,000

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23870 106th Ave.OPEN SAT 2-4 & SUN 11-4

ACRES - VERY PRIVATEFirst time on Market• 4 Bedroom/4 Bathroom• 1000 sq ft shop• New roof, very well maintained• Close to Elementary School and • Whonnock LakeIn-law suite potential• Incredibly serene setting•

Call Jason Exner: Cell 604-818-9851

$519,900$519,900 $459,900$459,900

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$699,900$699,900

Executive home with a million dollar view of the Fraser Valley, over 4000 sq feet of quality, and a16x30 foot in-ground pool. Extensive updating with wood fl oors on main living area, 3 fi re-places, and a full basement perfect for a home offi ce or suite area. Call Brenda Exner: Cell 604-603-8043

$729,900$729,9001231 CONFEDERATION DRIVE,

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KICHLER STATIONUnbelievably beautiful 3 BR town-home backing onto greenbelt with total privacy. Totally renovated with style and artistry. Worry free com-plex with newer roofs and rainscreen technology. Loads of storage with a double garage, plus there is a third parking space in front of the garage.Call Brenda Exner: Cell 604-603-8043

$369,900$369,900

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3 Bedroom/ 2 Bath• Private/Fenced back yard• Garage• Laminate Floors• Needs TLC •

Offered at only $249,900Call Jason Exner: Cell 604-818-9851

NEWLISTING

20270 123 AVE

Custom built 2 storey with 4 Br’s up-stairs on a quiet no through street. The huge south facing yard is 75x128, has RV parking, a storage shed and is perfect for a pool or a workshop. Walk to Fairview Elementary, West-view Secondary, Christian School and Westgate Shopping Center. Call Brenda Exner: Cell 604-603-8043

PRIME PITT MEADOWS LOCATION

Meticulously maintained basement entry home in a quiet cul-de-sac. The large private 7405 sq ft lot is a gar-dener’s paradise and has an RV pad among the towering cedars. There is over 1800 sq ft with 3 Bedrooms, a den, a full bath and 2 half baths, a new roof and drainage, and suite potential. First time on the market and original owner!! Call Brenda Exner: Cell 604-603-8043

RON MITCHELLCell 604-617-9642www.ronmitchell.bc.ca

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TRAVIS FRANKLIN Cell: 604-351-0235 • E-mail: [email protected]

LARGE 17,424 SQ FT LOT

471 ft of frontage on Lougheed • Hwy.Easy access to Golden Ears & • Pitt River Bridge

EXCELLENT HIGHWAY EXPOSURE

23269 LOUGHEED HWY

POTENTIAL FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Al & Brenda JENKINS

604.467.3871www.brendajenkins.com

Rare 2 storey home with full basement in great neighbourhood. 4 bedrooms. Sunken L/R with vaulted ceilings. Kitchen has oak cabinets and sliders to super back yard. Heat pump, roof replaced in 2007. Laminate fl oors and designer colours. Steps to shopping. Please contact Brenda (604)816-6961 for an appointmenttoday. MLS #V911048

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19655 Somerset

11339 DARTFORD ST

5 bedrooms, 3 baths• Completely Renovated• Original wood fl oors & windows• Loft with 3 skylights & 4 pc bath

FULL OF CHARM & CHARACTER

ORIGINAL HAMMOND HOME

$569,000

11630 227TH STREET

Rancher with full basement• Large 8,729 sq ft lot• Open fl oor plan, • 3 bdrm and 2 baths• Large kitchen with eating bar•

GRAYSTONE SUBDIVISION

$548,800

DICK HUBER604.250.3977

MIKE HUBER604.839.8647

SCOTT MEADUS604.313.5727

21617 Donovan Ave MLS# V910595

$554,000

20366 Hampton St MLS# V906033

$318,800

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$1,300,000

Rancher with double garage• 4 bdrm basement homes• 2 brm authorized suite• Ready February 2012•

CLOSE TO TOWN CENTER

CALL FOR DETAILS

3 bdrm with 3 baths• Huge kitchen with large island• Master with an amazing shower• Separate detached 20 x 20 shop•

CENTRAL LOCATION

11885 216TH STREET

$589,900

OPEN HOUSE SAT. 12-3

4 bdrms with 3 baths • Large rec room with full wet bar • Shopping & School within • walking distance

FANTASTIC LOCATION

11871 GEE STREET

$419,900

OPEN HOUSE SUN. 12-3

Have a look at this 5 acre beauty. The home is over 2000 sq feet with 3 bdrm, 3 bath and to-tally reno’d. The property is level, fenced and has a huge barn with box stalls. Only minutes to Rolley Lake Provincial Park. $799,000

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23010 REID AVE.4 BEDROOM CHARMER BACKS ONTO GREENBELT, CUL-DE-SAC

• Curved staircase, vaulted ceilings • Sunroom and a covered patio• Nice in & out! • Huge fi g tree in backyard

ASKING $469,900

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Sharon Crandall604-220-8583“Your Real Estate Sidekick...For Life”

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY SEPT. 25 • 2-4 PM

#108-12207 224th St., Maple Ridge

STUNNINGLY RENOVATED 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom suite with a quiet private patio. Boasts new fl oors and paint throughout. Paint colours have been expertly chosen to enhance and complement each living space. The open concept living and dining area allows for maximum entertaining potential. CENTRALLY LOCATED, this unit is only steps away from public transit, shopping, ACT Theatre, library, recreation and the West Coast Express Train Station. Nestled within a quiet retirement community and set on the desired side of the building, away from the traffi c noise of 224th Street, you can be sure you’ll sleep soundly at night. This one shows like a show home!! Don’t miss it. Call today for your private viewing.

$199,900www.sharoncrandall.com

604-467-0811 karenknittel.com

SILVER RIDGELovely four bedroom family home on quiet street. Detached double garage, separate entrance to basement. Two kitchens.Don’t miss this one!$519,000

CONDO INCENTRAL MAPLE RIDGE2 bedroom. Southern exposure and river views. Easy to show, plus quick possession possible!$119,000

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Michelle Jongbloets

250-644-1100

Gisela Janzen250-706-1186

LARGE ACREAGES: • 90 acres 15 min. to 100 Mile & 5 min. to Watch & Green Lake. Semi-developed - septic, power, driveway & cleared building site. $269,000.• 82 acres with 900 ft of breathtaking South Canim Lake waterfront. Incredible beach. Creek running thru property. $459,000

WATCH LAKE $499,000Custom deluxe home! Top of the line fi nishings, intricate tile work, in fl oor heating, and beautifully landscaped yard and

patio. Quiet fi shing Lake! 3 bdrms, 3 bath. 2,400 sq. ft.

GREEN LAKE $699,000Custom deluxe home! Deluxe Maple cabinets, 9 ft. ceilings, stainless steel appliances, stunning 180˚ lake & Marble Mtn view. Finished with only the fi nest! Recreational paradise!

3 bdrms, 3bath. 2,500 sq. ft.

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Olga Duduletz Realty Inc.

Executive classic custom built 4,000 sq. ft. home. Quality thru-out. House features 4 large bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms with jacuzzi plus a 3 pce bath & a 2 pce powder room on main - crown moldings throughout. Built-in appliances,. 3 fi replaces, corner 2 acre lot with circular driveway, workshop, 3 stall barn and much more. Suitable for Bed and Breakfast business, since it has 2 sets of washers & dryers & 2 ovens. The 3 stall barn can also be used for income if needed.

Websters Corners12985 - 256th St.,

Maple Ridge (MLS#V891311)

Phone: 604-307-2000Cell: 604-726-6744

OPEN HOUSE SAT. SEPT 24TH & SUN. SEPT 25TH 2-4

12120 250TH STREET ASKING $649,000Call Naz Allahyari 604.328.3008

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MORTGAGE Ratesof

SurveyLENDER 1 yr 2 yr 3 yr 4 yr 5 yrATB Financial 3.04 3.40 3.40 3.54 3.59

Bank of Montreal Mortgage Corp. 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.79 5.19

Bank of Nova Scotia 4.30 3.89 4.39 4.79 5.19

Canadian Western Trust 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.79 5.19

CIBC Mortgage Corp. 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.39 5.19

Equitable Trust 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.79 5.19

HSBC Bank of Canada 3.60 3.95 4.45 4.99 5.39

Investors Group Trust 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.79 5.19

Laurentian Bank of Canada 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.99 5.39

League Savings & Mortgage 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.79 5.19

Libro Financial 3.40 3.60 4.10 4.30 3.90

London Life 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.79 5.19

National Bank 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.79 5.19

Royal Bank of Canada 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.79 5.19

TD Mortgage 3.50 3.85 4.35 4.79 5.19

SEVILLE MORTGAGE CORP. 2.89 3.09 3.19 3.39 3.49

SEPT. 21, 2011


Amberley NeufeldtSales Associate 604-826-9000

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604-826-9000

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604-820-9000

MINDY MCPHERSON604.826.1000SALES [email protected]

OFFICE:

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Quality Built on Quiet St.2 storey quality built on quiet street. 4 bdrms + den, 2-1/2 baths. Great room concept. Laundry upstairs for ease. Built by Converge with sure to please designer fl air! $459,500

#0663


Brand New - 2600+ SqFt2600+ sqft 4 bdrm + den 2 storey home. Converge Construction built with designer details. Great room concept with a family kitchen & dining room area. Laundry room upstairs for ease. $459,500

#0662


2 Storey + Bsmt MapleRFully fenced backyard backing onto greenbelt. Open kitch. w/maple cab. cust center isl. w/break bar, pantry. 2 gas f/p 4 bdrms up! Massive master. 2 bdrm legal suite w/own laundry. $669,500

#0709


Industrial ParkMission Way!! Prime location for this big corner, high visible exposure unit! Warehouse/retail space, 3 pce bath-room, mezz fl r for offi ces/storage. Huge roll-up bay door. Imm. Pos. $199,900

#0534


Gated “Edwards Estates”55+ complex!! Vaulted ceiling in liv-ing room. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, gas fi replace. Spacious shower in ensuite. Sought after adult complex. $164,900

#0587


Wow - Only $174,900!Great starter or retirement!! Everything almost new! New roof, windows, fl rs, kitchen, paint & more. Re-done bthrm. Private back yard. Great quiet location on dead end street. $174,900

#0538


Private Estate1 acre on sewer, min to shops, churches, rec lakes & West Coast Ex. Home is 2 storey and fully fi n bsmnt games/media rm under det. garage and suite/offi ce over. Room for everyone. $875,000

#0725


Students 1st Time BuyersSouth facing 2 bdrm. 2 bath unit at College Park Place. Walk to UFV, sports complex, shopping, dining, movies. This is convenience! Quiet side of complex. New roof in 2008. $169,500

#0727


Bring the RV - Build ShopExec 2 storey custom home, almost 1 acre. Corner lot, fl at, landscaped. Lots of parking. Huge kitch & family rm, for-mal din & liv rm. 4 bdrms + den. 3 car garage. Spotless & “10”. $674,900

#0724

To view call Bob 604.826.9000

Beautiful 1 Acre PropertyClose to all levels of schools, 5 min drive to shops & West Coast Express. 3 bdrms up. Rock f/p in liv rm. 1 bdrm bath in bsmnt. Close to town with future po-tential! $489,900

#0723


Brand New Bsmnt Home6000+ sq. ft. lot with new bsmt entry home with room for the extended fam-ily! 3000+ sq. ft. 6 bdrm, full baths, home under constr. w/time to choose your colours. NHW. $489,500

#0555


Choose Your Colours!7028+ sq. ft. lot w/brand new bsmt entry home w/room for the extended family! Triple car garage!! 3200+ sq. ft. 6 bdrm, 4 full baths under construction. New Home Warranty. $499,500

#0554


3000+ Sq Ft 2 StoreyOn 6000+ sq. ft. lot. Close to schools, transit! Formal dining/living rm combo + fam rm off open concept kitch. w/granite counters, crowns, 9’ ceil 4 bdrms + den, 4 baths. $489,900

#0677


Backs onto GreenbeltLegal suites allowed! Time to choose your colours & put your input into this home! Spacious games rm/bdrm/den with full bath for upstairs use! Check out the functional layout on this new home. $499,500

#0664


Legal Suites AllowedCorner cul-de-sac location! Backs onto greenspace! Pick your colours. Separate tub (jetted) & shower in m/bdrm. 2 laundries (bsmnt European style). Come check out the layout! $494,500

#0665

OPEN HOUSEOPEN HOUSE1-2:30 PM SUN, SEPT 251-2:30 PM SUN, SEPT 25

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To view call Bob 604.826.9000

Gorgeous 2 storey w/bsmntQuality and att. throughout. 4 bdrms, open fl oor plan. Sound proof media room. Hardwood throughout. Shows a 10!! $499,900

#0685


Backs Onto Greenbelt!Cathedral entry home w/5 bdrms & 31/2 full baths! Area of new homes. Built by Converge Construction w/designer de-tails! Games room! Open concept living for today’s family! $463,500

#0661


New 5 Bedroom Home!Cathedral entry home with 5 bdrms and 3 full baths! Area of new homes. Built by Converge Construction with design-er details! Games & sitting room! Open concept for today’s family! $463,500

#0660


Area of New Homes!2700+ sq ft cathedral entry home w/5 bdrms & 31/2 full baths! Built by Con-verge Construction w/designer details! Games room! Open concept living for today’s family! $463,500

#0658

OPEN HOUSEOPEN HOUSE3-4:30 PM SUN, SEPT 253-4:30 PM SUN, SEPT 2532602 TUNBRIDGE AVE32602 TUNBRIDGE AVE

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Hatzic Lake Waterfront!View lot!! Apples, grapes, nuts, fruit trees & garden area! Spotless older well kept 3 level split home. Gas f/p, updated windows, huge unfi nished attic, work-shop in bsmnt + det w/s. $369,500

#0722

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Fraser Landing - MissionEnd unit. Lovely complex close to shop-ping, banking. Westcoast Ex. Theatre, coffee shops! 3 yrs young & affordable w/open concept kitch., 2 bdrm w/bonus 3rd bdrm/den/fl ex rm. down. $254,500

#728


Bouchie Lake - Cariboo5 tranquil acres located only 1/2 hour out of Quesnel. Get away from the hus-tle of the commercial world. 500+ sq ft with 5x16 front porch. Electric done to code. Wood shed! Shop! $85,000

#0227

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Magnificant View Lots!!7 lots from almost 6000 sq. ft. to 7860 sq. ft. Plus size lots. New sub-division of lots on Knight St. Call for further details. $249,900 each.

#0643


47.51 Acres Farm Land!!Great organic fertile soil!! Scenic views of the mountains!! Very private!! Great location, only 1 hr from Van., 6 mi. east of Mission, 1 mi from Hwy 7. Seller mo-tivated!!! $1,900,000.

#0656


0.45 Acre Rural Setting!Enjoy peace & tranquility of your sur-roundings. Firepit, pond & gazebo set the tone for outdoor enjoyment. Re-modelled home, 5 bdrms, 3 f/p, new kitch, roof. Huge workshop. $514,900

#0613


Cul-de-sac Maple RidgeBeautiful 4 level split features over 2700 sq. ft. of luxury living space. 5’ crawl space, lots of storage. Located in quiet cul-de-sac in area of good homes, close to schools. $499,500

#0592


Privacy SeekersPrivate 1.05 acres! Architecturally designed 4 level split overlooking the forest & Alouette River. 3 bdrms + 3 baths + studio/workshop perfect for home based business - one of a kind! $595,350

#0657


Lot in Bear Creek!!!6400+ sq. ft. lot backing onto green-space, walking trails. Quiet street of newer homes!!! Close to schools!!

#0652

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Jesus spoke of this in the gospel of Matthew: “Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or – worse! – stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and bur-glars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being ... You can’t worship two gods at once. Loving one god,

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proach the Rivers Day celebration at the Allco fi sh hatchery on Sept. 25, it seems a good time to re-member our history with this glorious community asset.

The human relationship with the Alouette River began with Katzie First Nation. As Europe-an settlers began to arrive, and then people of other nations, they soon found the Alouette an important resource for three areas of life – food, work and play.

Fish were the food provided by the Alouette. According to Katzie history, there were several varieties of salmon, trout and steelhead that could be netted or speared.

As a dietary supplement or staple, the Alouette was a reli-able source of fi sh until it was compromised by the construc-tion of the dam in 1926.

Claude Holt, who lived along the river and fi shed every day, recorded his dismay in his diary as the muddiness of the water increased and his success at fi shing fell away.

Through the efforts of the Alouette River Management Society and the hatchery run by B.C. Corrections, some of the deleterious effects of the dam were reversed in the mid-1990s, and today some of the salmon runs have been re-established.

For the logging industry, the Alouette provided a means to get forest products down to the Fraser River, where they could be distributed to sawmills and shingle mills. Shingle bolts and full logs would be rolled into

the river in the hope that they would eventually fl oat down to the lower reaches, where they could be boomed for transport to the mills.

The river – even undammed – usually didn’t have enough water in it to move the larger logs, so the loggers waited for river-fi lling rainstorms to move their product. The side effect was that large logs combined with rampaging water served to remove one or more of the small community’s bridges with every storm.

Council notes from the 1890s are full of complaints from residents demanding that the loggers pay for bridge replace-ment rather than the poor taxpayer.

Last, but not least, the Alou-ette has been a magnet for fair weather recreation since settle-ment began. The best swim-ming in the district was to be found at Davidson’s Pool.

The pool and the large rock on the south side of it have an important place in Katzie his-tory, too.

When the geographic features of what we call Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows were being

set in place, a powerful being named Khaals turned a one-legged fi sherman into that very rock so that he could guard the stream and ensure that Katzie people treated the fi sh and the river with respect.

The pool has had more than one name, usually taken from the nearest landowner. First it was Smedley’s pool, then Davidson’s Pool.

It was considered so impor-tant as the best swimming hole in the district that in 1934 in the middle of the Depression, municipal council set aside funds to provide a road access to the pool.

The adjacent ‘Hot Rocks’ were equally popular and could be gotten to via the Cross property where the family had built nu-merous small cabins to attract summer tourists from the big city.

So join us at Rivers Day, when the museum will have more displays on the history of the Alouette, and remember to always treat the river with respect – that rock is watching.

Val Patenaude is director of the Maple Ridge Museum.

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Swimmers on the rocks at Davidson’s Pool in the 1940s. In the background is the Cross house.

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Maple Ridge’s Anthony DiNi-colo was named Great North-west Athletic Conference Player of the Week thanks to his strong defensive play last week for the Simon Fraser University Clan against Grand Canyon.

DiNicolo, a senior engineer-ing student at SFU, helped the Clan to a pair shut-outs last week as they defeated the GCU An-telopes on Sept. 11, be-fore beating the Trinity Lutheran Col-lege Eagles 6-0.

“Anthony was fantastic for us at the back this past week,” said head coach Alan Koch.

“He helped settle our back four in the final thirty min-utes against Grand Canyon and helped preserve a big victory. He has grown into a silent lead-er and has started off his senior year full of confidence.”

DiNicolo is coming off a stellar junior campaign that saw him named an Academic All-Amer-ican by the College Sports In-formation Directors of America (CoSIDA), in addition to being named to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Academic Team thanks to his 3.49 GPA.

DiNicolo was a critical mem-ber of last season’s 19-2-0 Clan team, and has started all five SFU games this season, helping the team to a 5-0 record, with only one goal against.

DiNicolo named player of the week

DiNicolo University of B.C. Thunderbirds men’s basketball team might think about changing its name to the Ma-rauders given how many former Pitt Meadows secondary students are playing for the team. This sea-son there are three Pitt products playing for the T-Birds, with fi fth-year player Dog Plumb and sopho-more Mike Lewandowski joined by freshman Malcolm Williams.

Pitt Meadows basketball coach Rich Goulet said the trio rank among some of the best to have played at the high school, and han-dling the transition to university basketball quite nicely.

“Mike is just so big, and Malcolm looked very good for a freshman,” said Goulet, who has travelled out to UBC to see his ex-players play twice so far this year. “I expect all three could have very good seasons this year.”

Doug Plumb was a student at Pitt Meadows Grade 8 and 9 before moving to Minnesota. After a stint

with the University of the Fraser Valley Cascades, Plumb joined the Thunderbirds last season.

At six-foot-four, Plumb will be one of the Thunderbirds starting guards this season.

“He’s a very good athlete, a very accomplished player,” says Goulet.

Lewandowski helped lead the Marauders to a fourth-place fi nish at provincials in his senior season two years ago. There he played along side Williams, both of whom will no doubt play big roles in the future of the Thunderbirds.

While the six-foot-seven Lewan-dowski has struggled with knee injuries over the past few years, Goulet says he looks be playing in good health, and it shows.

“He’s learning to be a lot more ag-gressive, and that’s good,” he said.

Williams, meanwhile, is showing steady improvement,

“He was our king last year,” said Goulet of Williams. “If there was a way to multiply him or get him even more minutes, we would have done it.”

The trio of Marauders played a big role in the Thunderbirds recent

preseason series with the Santa Clara Broncos of the NCAA’s fi rst division, Steve Nash’s alma mater.

On Sept. 8, the Thunderbirds beat the Broncos 98-85 in over-time, with Plumb picking up 16 points.

The T-Birds didn’t fare as well in the rematch on Sept. 11, however. UBC opened the game on a 15-0 run, powered by Plumb, who fi nished the fi rst quarter with nine points.

“We were being really aggressive and we really dictating the tempo of the game on offence and de-fence,” said Plumb. “I felt we were the ones making scrappy plays and hustling after the loose balls, but as the game progressed, it kind of switched, where they were out-working us.”

Santa Clara slowly fought their way back, narrowing the gap to just 21-14. The Broncos continued their good play into the second and closed to within one just before halftime. Plumb responded with a coast-to-coast layup to end the half

at 35-32 in favour of UBC.The two teams kept the game

close in the third. The score was tied on fi ve occasions and the lead

changed hands three times.

But in the fourth quar-ter, UBC couldn’t muster a consistent offensive threat and despite keep-ing Santa Clara within striking distance, UBC never saw the lead in the fi nal period.

“I thought it was a very, very educational game for us,” said UBC head coach Kevin Hanson. “Now

they see what they really have to work on, getting a shot off a little bit quicker to defending a little bit more aggressively.”

Hanson said that’s especially true with his young recruits, like Lewan-dowski and Williams.

“The minutes they played against the NCAA Division 1 will help them this year, but it will really help them in years three, four and fi ve, so that bodes well for the future,” he said.

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Mike Lewandowski (left) and Malcolm Williams (right) are both playing for the UBC Thunderbirds this year along with fellow Pitt product Doug Plumb.

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Proper posture keeps muscles and joints in their neu-

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However, due to a variety of lifestyle factors, such as too much sitting and not enough exercise or overusing one part, we can develop poor posture.

Improper posture can come from a sedentary lifestyle, prolonged sit-ting and excess abdomi-nal girth. This results in a number of effects, including a shorten-ing of the hamstrings, tight hip fl exors, short lower back muscles, lengthened abdominal group, shortened pec-toral group, stretched upper back muscles, and shortened neck muscles.

One common result of this is chronic strain (and pain) in the weak, stretched upper back muscles and a forward head posture. Note that when head carriage is normal, the cheekbone should fall in the same vertical plane as the sternum and the front of the pelvis, and the ear should be aligned with the centre of the shoulder and hip.

When the shoulders are rounded forward, this puts the person at risk for thoracic outlet syndrome. This is often associated with shoul-der dysfunction and im-pingement of the nerves feeding the arm as they

exit the cervical spine or as they run underneath the deep chest (pecto-

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cises can exacerbate this condition, while others will correct it. It is important to be given an appropriate exercise program.

In the case of rounded shoulders, strengthen-ing the upper back by doing a rowing exercise against resistance is helpful. You can also stretch the chest by standing in the corner of a room or in a doorway with your arms on the walls or door jams and by leaning forward you can stretch your chest and shoulders.

Poor posture is often caused by environmen-tal factors such as too much sitting, or how your work-station is designed. If you have to crane your neck forward to read your computer screen or put your arm in an awk-ward position in order to mouse or type on your keyboard for eight hours a day you can develop these postural problems that can cause pain and stiffness. Do-ing exercises to address this will help, but unless you get at the root of your problems, you will

be in for a perpetual struggle of abuse and correction. So have a good look at the posi-tions you sit, stand and work in during the day and make changes to alleviate the cause for postural duress. If your chair has no low back support, then either fi nd one that does, or use something to substitute, such as a pillow or towel placed in the small of the back while you sit.

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move it closer so you can sit up tall and don’t have to crane your neck forward. Taking fre-quent breaks or change in body position will also allow the muscles to get some relief.

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THE NEWS/scoreboardValley Community Football League

Regular season standings as of Sept. 22

AtomTeam GP W L T % Streak PF PA PtsMission 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 122 31 6Meadow Ridge Gold 3 2 1 0 .667 Lost 1 65 48 4Meadow Ridge Blue 3 2 1 0 .667 Lost 1 58 40 4Abbotsford 3 2 1 0 .667 Won 2 97 62 4Chilliwack Red 3 1 2 0 .333 Lost 2 58 79 2Chilliwack White 3 1 2 0 .333 Won 1 31 83 2Chilliwack Blue 3 1 2 0 .333 Won 1 45 60 2North Langley 3 0 3 0 .000 Lost 3 6 79 0

BantamTeam GP W L T % Streak PF PA PtsCowichan 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 122 37 6South Delta 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 74 12 6North Surrey Tigers 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 140 18 6Meadow Ridge 3 2 1 0 .667 Won 2 65 37 4Chilliwack 3 2 1 0 .667 Won 1 97 51 4Victoria 3 1 2 0 .333 Won 1 17 68 2Langley 3 1 2 0 .333 Lost 1 42 23 2North Langley 3 1 2 0 .333 Lost 2 20 104 2North Surrey Panthers 3 1 2 0 .333 Lost 2 69 73 2Abbotsford 3 1 2 0 .333 Lost 1 45 32 2Nanaimo 3 0 3 0 .000 Lost 3 0 150 0Cloverdale 3 0 3 0 .000 Lost 3 13 99 0

Junior Team GP W L T % Streak PF PA PtsMeadow Ridge 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 44 9 6Abbotsford 3 2 1 0 .667 Won 2 96 37 4Chilliwack Blue 3 2 1 0 .667 Won 1 90 22 4Chilliwack Red 3 2 1 0 .667 Lost 1 89 74 4Mission 3 0 3 0 .000 Lost 3 26 113 0North Langley 3 0 3 0 .000 Lost 3 49 139 0

MidgetTeam GP W L T % Streak PF PA PtsVictoria 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 83 29 6Nanaimo 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 107 10 6White Rock 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 139 29 6Chilliwack 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 79 39 6Coquitlam 3 2 1 0 .667 Won 2 67 70 4North Delta 3 2 1 0 .667 Won 1 97 14 4North Surrey 3 2 1 0 .667 Lost 1 68 20 4Langley 3 1 2 0 .333 Lost 1 80 53 2Vancouver 3 1 2 0 .333 Lost 2 48 113 2Meadow Ridge 3 1 2 0 .333 Won 1 30 70 2Cowichan 3 0 3 0 .000 Lost 3 33 80 0Cloverdale 3 0 3 0 .000 Lost 3 51 86 0Burnaby 3 0 3 0 .000 Lost 3 0 144 0Richmond 3 0 3 0 .000 Lost 3 7 132 0

PeeweeTeam GP W L T % Streak PF PA PtsAbbotsford White 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 110 13 6Abbotsford Black 3 3 0 0 1.000 Won 3 102 6 6Meadow Ridge Gold 3 2 1 0 .667 Won 2 32 38 4Chilliwack Blue 3 1 2 0 .333 Lost 2 48 53 2North Langley 3 1 2 0 .333 Lost 2 25 50 2Meadow Ridge Blue 3 1 2 0 .333 Won 1 25 84 2Chilliwack Red Peewee 3 0 2 1 .167 Lost 3 0 62 1Mission 3 0 2 1 .167 Lost 3 6 42 1

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Lower Mainland Senior Men’s Division 3 standings

Team G W L T D PTS PF PA % Capilano A 2 2 0 0 0 8 93 17 1.00 Kats 2 2 0 0 0 8 52 5 1.00 Kamloops 1 1 0 0 0 4 5 0 1.00 United 1 1 0 0 0 4 12 3 1.00 Chilliwack 1 1 0 0 0 4 13 10 1.00 VRC 1 1 0 0 0 4 27 8 1.00 Brit Lions 1 1 0 0 0 4 48 5 1.00 SFU 1 0 1 0 0 0 5 27 0.00 Scribes 2 0 2 0 0 0 5 73 0.00 Burnaby Lake 1 0 1 0 0 0 8 27 0.00 Surrey 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 12 0.00 UBC 1 0 1 0 0 0 12 18 0.00 Ridge Meadows 1 0 1 0 0 0 10 13 0.00 Abbotsford 2 0 2 0 1 -4 5 80 0.00

Lower Mainland Senior Women’s Division 3 standings

Team G W L T D PTS PF PA % Abbotsford 2 2 0 0 0 8 99 27 1.00 Kelowna/UBCO 2 2 0 0 0 8 61 27 1.00 United 2 2 0 0 0 8 78 17 1.00 Ridge Meadows 2 0 2 0 0 0 15 102 0.00 Burnaby 1 0 1 0 0 0 12 51 0.00 Brit Lions 1 0 1 0 0 0 17 31 0.00 UBC 2 0 2 0 0 0 27 54 0.00

Fraser Valley Soccer LeagueRegular season standings

Division 1Team W D L F A +/- GP PtsFraser Valley Red Devils A 1 1 0 6 1 5 2 4Langley Utd Sentinel 1 1 0 3 2 1 2 4Surrey FC Guildford 1 1 0 5 4 1 2 4Surrey FC Akal 1 0 1 6 5 1 2 3North Delta SC B 1 0 1 4 4 0 2 3Peace Arch Utd B 1 0 1 4 4 0 2 3North Fraser Razorbacks 1 0 1 4 5 -1 2 3Poco Revolution FC 1 0 1 2 5 -3 2 3Aldergrove Utd A 0 1 1 3 4 -1 2 1Port Moody Gunners B 0 0 2 0 3 -3 2 0

Division 2Team W D L F A +/- GP PtsNorth Fraser Inter 2 0 0 13 2 11 2 6Surrey FC Coyotes 2 0 0 8 3 5 2 6Langley Utd Young Guns 1 1 0 9 2 7 2 4Stolo United A 1 1 0 6 5 1 2 4North Fraser Knights 1 0 1 6 4 2 2 3Langley Utd Dynamo 0 1 1 5 7 -2 2 1Peace Arch Nomads 0 1 1 1 4 -3 2 1White Rock Utd A 0 1 1 4 9 -5 2 1Guildford FC Marga 0 1 1 5 12 -7 2 1BC United A 0 0 2 2 11 -9 2 0

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Division 3ATeam W D L F A +/- GP PtsPort Moody Gunners C 2 0 0 13 1 12 2 6Coquitlam MF Titans 2 0 0 6 0 6 2 6Poco Rockets 2 0 0 6 2 4 2 6Port Moody Lions 1 1 0 8 4 4 2 4Port Moody Magpies 1 0 1 5 3 2 2 3North Fraser Celtic 1 0 1 6 6 0 2 3North Fraser Phoenix 0 1 1 5 7 -2 2 1TWU Titans B 0 0 2 1 5 -4 2 0Langley Utd Knights 0 0 2 1 10 -9 2 0BC United B 0 0 2 1 14 -13 2 0

Masters Division 1Team W D L F A +/- GP PtsPoco Dominion FC 2 0 0 8 2 6 2 6Aldergrove Utd 2 0 0 6 2 4 2 6North Fraser Razorbacks 2 0 0 4 1 3 2 6Peace Arch FC Legends 1 1 0 7 4 3 2 4Peace Arch Utd Alumni 1 0 1 6 2 4 2 3Chilliwack FC Rapids 1 0 1 6 3 3 2 3North Delta SC United 1 0 1 4 3 1 2 3North Fraser Thunder 1 0 1 4 4 0 2 3Langley Utd Alumni B 1 0 1 5 7 -2 2 3South Surrey FC B 0 2 0 4 4 0 2 2North Fraser Saints 0 1 1 3 5 -2 2 1Peace Arch Rangers 0 0 2 0 5 -5 2 0Surrey Heat 0 0 2 3 9 -6 2 0Surrey FC Caps 0 0 2 1 10 -9 2 0

U-21Team W D L F A +/- GP PtsPoco Rovers FC 2 0 0 8 0 8 2 6Abbotsford Mariners 2 0 0 8 1 7 2 6Chilliwack FC Rapids 2 0 0 10 3 7 2 6Port Moody United 1 1 0 6 3 3 2 4Port Moody Gunners 1 0 1 5 3 2 2 3North Fraser Strikers 1 0 1 6 5 1 2 3Guildford FC 0 1 1 2 7 -5 2 1Langley United 0 0 2 3 9 -6 2 0Aldergrove Utd 0 0 2 1 9 -8 2 0Peace Arch Wolves 0 0 2 0 9 -9 2 0

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Regular transit rid-ers better brace for a big jump in fares in the spring of 2013.

TransLink intends to seek approval next year for an average fare in-crease of 12.5 per cent.

TransLink’s Moving Forward fi nancial plan shows base fares are to remain frozen while monthly pass prices would jump 24 per cent in 2013.

But TransLink spokes-man Ken Hardie said the exact increases in each category are yet to be determined.

Cash fares may go up that year, he said, and numbers in the plan showing a three-zone pass, for example, rising from $151 to $187.20 may end up less than shown.

“It won’t likely all go on the passholders,” he said. “How that fare rev-enue is actually going to be generated will be the subject of consultations next year.”

He said the numbers were included for ac-counting purposes only to demonstrate the rev-enue TransLink needs to raise in future years.

Another big factor in the future of transit fares is that TransLink’s Compass smart cards arrive in 2013.

“We’re going through a fare review right now to see how the fare structure will eventual-ly roll out,” Hardie said.

The Compass card will initially be designed to mirror the existing fare structure – including the current three zones – to ensure all systems are working correctly.

Later, Hardie said, TransLink will redesign its fares “in a way that distributes the costs dif-ferently than they are right now.”

Potential options in-clude the elimination of fare zones in favour of charging more ac-

curately by distance or time travelled.

TransLink Commis-sioner Martin Crilly, whose offi ce vets fare increases, said it’s too early to say whether he will approve a major fare hike for 2013.

“It’s a substantial in-crease,” he told Metro Vancouver mayors last week, noting 12.5 per cent is far above infl a-tion.

“We will want to sat-isfy ourselves the in-crease is justifi ed and can’t be deferred and not reduced in amount.”

More modest fare in-creases for infl ation are also scheduled for 2016 and 2019.

Some mayors ques-tioned whether the 2013 hike is too much given the region has high fares already relative to some other transit sys-tems.

TransLink estimates the 12 per cent fare hike in 2013 will only result in a loss of two per cent of revenue from riders re-fusing to pay that much more, leaving a net fare revenue gain of at least 10 per cent.

TransLink projections show its fare revenue would climb from $421 million now to $517 million in 2013, in part through further gains in ridership.

Crilly was giving the

region’s Mayors Council on Transportation his analysis of TransLink’s proposed plans to raise revenue for future ex-pansion.

One big cost driver Crilly fl agged was TransLink’s plan to re-place buses with more expensive diesel-elec-tric hybrid models.

But he found overall the plans are “not un-reasonable” and would leave TransLink fi nan-cially sustainable.

He noted the trans-portation authority has a history of failing to actually spend all the capital money it promis-es to after new revenue increases are granted.

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Metro Vancouver will press the province to add refundable deposit

fees to the price of milk and dairy products to improve recycling of empty containers.

B.C. has previously re-jected milk deposits on the basis they’d be too

heavy a burden on low-income families.

But advocates say there’s no reason milk shouldn’t be included along with deposit fees charged on most other

ready-to-drink beverage bottles and cans.

Metro’s waste commit-tee has previously sup-ported the idea, but de-cided Sept. 14 to mount a more public campaign for milk deposits.

“Somebody’s got to stand up to the lobby-ists of the industry,” Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said, adding past claims that deposits hurt families “don’t hold water” or recognize envi-ronmental damage from unrecycled containers.

“We know what it’s costing us to dispose of these goods in the gar-bage.”

A voluntary milk con-tainer recycling pro-gram by Encorp has re-turn rates of less than 10 per cent with no deposit-refund system.

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ery rate is 80 per cent for all other contain-ers where deposits are charged and refunded.

B.C. Bottle Depot As-sociation executive di-rector Corinne Atwood pointed to Alberta,

which in 2009 introduced deposits of 10 or 25 cents on milk containers, de-pending on size.

Milk carton recycling rates there have since climbed from 22.5 to 61 per cent, she said, and 71

per cent of plastic milk jugs are now returned, up from 61 per cent.

The dairy industry re-ported no drop in sales, while Alberta cities saw curbside pickup and waste-handling costs drop.

Atwood argues the is-sue is about more than milk containers.

The provincial gov-ernment has ordered industry-led recycling programs to expand to cover all packaging by 2014.

That likely means milk containers will be col-lected through whatever overhauled blue box sys-tem emerges.

Atwood thinks big beverage companies – represented by Encorp – will try to eliminate all existing refundable deposits on various bot-tles and containers and have them also directed through the expanded packaging pickup sys-tem.

Container recycling fees – a few extra cents already charged in addi-tion to deposits on most bottles – would likely go up if deposits are elimi-nated, she said.

And she expects the same non-refundable re-cycling fees will be add-ed to milk to help pay for pickup.

Atwood argued it would be better to add a deposit to milk that con-sumers get back if they recycle than to end up with industry imposing its own added fee that isn’t refunded and may not even be transpar-ently shown on the bill of sale.

Encorp spokesman Malcolm Harvie denied the organization wants to dismantle the existing deposit system or that it has taken any position on how milk containers should be handled.

He said many milk cartons and jugs are recycled through oth-er methods – not just through depots – and the overall recovery rate may be more than 70 per cent.

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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

2 BIRTHS

It’s a Boy!!!

Jeff and Lisa are thrilled to announce the safe and

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Nathan Aaron Davisborn July 21, 2011 weighing 9lbs 5oz.

Proud to show off their new baby brother are Cameron,

Ally, Melissa and Amy. Proud grandparents

are Bill and Linda Lockett and Mike and Marilyn Davis.

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Micheal Allan NormanDec 29, 1968 ~ Sept 26, 2010

It has been 1 year since we lost you. There is not a day

that goes by that we don’t have many thoughts of you.

Some make us laugh about funny things and some still make us cry. We all have

wonderful memories you gave us.

Daught , Chloe & Mom & Dad , Allan & Fran & Tony & Kim

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BUHLERNoreen

Passed peacefully to Heaven on September 21st, 2011. She leaves her loving family. Service will be held Tuesday, September 27th at 11:00 A.M. in St. Luke’s Catholic Church, 20285 Dewdney Trunk Rd., Maple Ridge, B.C.

Condolences may be sent to www.mapleridgefuneral.ca


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BAXTER Isabella (Liz)nee Redford

Loving sister, mother, grand-mother and great-grandmother was born Dec 29, 1930, Nokomis Saskatchewan, passed away Sept 9, 2011. Survived by her sister Ruth Lawson, brother Edwin (Ted) Redford and brother-in-law Victor Halford. She leaves behind granddaughters Ricki and Hayley; grandson Benjamin; her daughter in- law Maureen Baxter, grand-daughter Emily, great-grand-son Kingston; grandson Tory and wife Lea; her son, Dan and wife Ellen and grandson Liam; her daughter Wendy and husband Greg; grandson Adam and wife Brandy, great-granddaughters Kaelyn and Kenzie; grandson Chris and wife Evelyn; and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her husband, Albert Ernest, 1999 and her son, Richard Gregory, Dec 2010. Words cannot express how much she will be missed, her family meant everything to her.

“Think of me as the days go by,

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by my loving thoughts of you.”

Flowers are gratefully declined but donations can be made to the BC Cancer Agency. At Mom’s request there will be no funeral.

We love you Mom.

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Born 22.04.1919Victoria - AustraliaDied 13.09.2011

Maple Ridge - British Columbia

Widow of the late Professor Jim Duncan, beloved sister of Joy Bradstreet (dec), survived by children Caroline, Dr. James Newell, Adrian and Francis and grandchildren.

Resting now at peace

In Loving memory

-The Duncan Family

Expressions of sympathy can be made at www.gardenhill.ca


7 OBITUARIES

BENDERHans Josif (John)

Passed away September 18, 2011 at 80 years in McKenney Creek Hospice, Maple Ridge, B.C. He is survived by his loving family; wife Sang Soon; children Anna, Katharine (David), Elizabeth, and Peter (Mae); grandchildren Madison, Ava, and Victoria. Funeral Mass will be Held Thursday September 22nd at 10:30AM at St Luke’s Catholic Church 20285 Dewdney Trunk Road Maple Ridge. Prayers Wed 7PM at St. Luke’s. Interment to follow in Maple Ridge Cemetery. Donations to McKenney Creek Hospice would be appreciated.

Expressions of Sympathy can be made at www.gardenhill.ca

BISSON Ross Arthur

Passed away September 17th, 2011, at Ridge Meadows Hospital, just four days shy of his 71st Birthday, after a courageous battle with cancer. Survived by his loving family, wife Maureen, daughter La-Lonnie, son Rodney, sister Wendy (Oldenborger), one niece and three nephews. Ross retired in 1999 as a Sales Supervisor for Canada Bread (which had bought Venice Bakery where Ross worked when he left the printing industry and entered the food industry in 1977). For many a year Ross was a dedicated volunteer swimming instructor in Vancouver for the Royal Life Saving Society. The family would like to extend their heartfelt thanks to all who helped Ross during his 4 year illness. At the request of the deceased there will be no service.


7 OBITUARIES

MacPhersonGarry

July 7, 1944 ~ August 4, 2011

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our father Garry MacPherson. Dad was born in Edmonton and grew up in Maple Ridge. For many years he was active in the Real Estate community and a member of the Rotary Club.

He will be deeply missed and always remembered by his daughter Amber Boyd, his son Nathan MacPherson, his family and friends who shared his life.

I’ve lived a life that’s fullI traveled each and

every highwayAnd more, much more

than this I did it my way.

No service at his request.

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

42 LOST AND FOUNDFOUND: SET OF KEYS on 102nd Ave near water pump in Albion. Call to identify 778-227-6469.

Lost:Ladies Brown Fabric Hat with multi-colored felt fl ower pinned on. Inside maker label is ‘parkhurst’, On Friday Sept 16 on either the sky-train from the airport or the after-noon West Coast Express. I got off at Pitt Meadows but missing hat. Sentimental Value. Contact Mary at 604-459-8917

LOST - LARGE M. black / white cat in area of 119 A Ave. and 238 St. Reward. Phone (604)312-0408.

LOST ~ Orange Tabby Cat, male. On Sept 7th. Vicinity of Glenhurst & Dewdney Trunk Rd. (604)463-9590

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83 CHILDCARE AVAILABLEHARRY Hooge before & after school care. 2 blocks from school. 7am-5pm. 604-466-9579 before 8pm. - Jeannette

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KIND GRANDMA will do childcare. Two years and under. Your home. Edna (604)463-0205.

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CHILDREN

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109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Service, Commitment, Leadership

Thompson Community Ser-vices seeks skilled, exp. and self-directed individuals to fi ll the following positions.

AREA MANAGER -COASTAL REGION

The Area Manager is a con-tributing member of the senior management team and is responsible for the daily operations of our community living programs in the CLBC Vancouver - Coastal region. The Area Manager reports to the Director of Quality Services.The successful applicant will have a combination of exp. and knowledge in the following areas:· Service Delivery - ensuring excellence in all programs for individuals with develop-mental disabilities;· Leadership - providing direction and functioning as an exemplar;· Admin. - developing and maintaining organizational functioning;· Community - promoting awareness and building relationships w/stakeholders.

HOME MANAGERAs a Home Manager, you will have extensive exp. as a Community Service Worker in residential settings and supervisory experience. You must have a sincere commit-ment to providing quality services to individuals with developmental disabilities. As a team player you must be able to build relation-ships, be an excellent inter-personal communicator and be able to main. a fl exible schedule as necessary. This position is based in North Vancouver.

We offer competitive wages with an excellent

benefi t package. Please reply in writing

by October 7, 2011.

Thompson Community Services, Attn: Kristine DeMonte Unit #102 1450

Pearson Place Kamloops, V1S-1J9, E-mail:

[email protected]

WE ARE CURRENTLYRECRUITING FOR AN

ENGINEER ATCOQUITLAM CENTRE

Reporting to the Operations Supervisor, the successful candidate will be responsible for carrying out the following routine maintenance on a daily basis:

• Performing and document-ing planned and irregular maintenance to the build-ing HVAC systems, includ-ing central cooling and heating system.

• Operation of DDC con-trols, Fire alarm systems.

• Minor electrical repairs.• Ensure all life safety

systems (sprinklers, ex-tinguishers etc.) are maintained.

• Touch up painting and minor building repairs, carpentry, plumbing etc.

• Help with set-up of ongo-ing promotions and décor as needed.

Qualifi cations:

• 4th Class Power Engineer-ing Certifi cate.

• Experience in building maintenance including the handling and maintenance of various pieces of power equipment.

• Must be able to work inde-pendently.

• Occasional heavy lifting and working from heights.

• Must have a valid B.C. driver’s license.

Interested applicants should contact:

David Smyth, Operations Supervisor,[email protected]

no later than October 2nd, 2011.

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115 EDUCATION

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125 FOSTER/SOCIAL CARE

Some great kids aged 12 to 18 who need a stable, caring home

for a few months. Are you looking for the opportunity to do

meaningful, fulfi lling work?PLEA Community Services is looking for qualifi ed applicants

who can provide care for youth in their home on a full-time basis or

on weekends for respite. Training, support and

remuneration are provided. Funding is available for

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Call 604-708-2628www.plea.bc.ca

127 HAIRCAREPROFESSIONALS

Britz Hair Design is now hiring

WPart time Hair dresser for weekends (min 1 year exp).

W Full time Stylist with clients (commission or rental).

W Also Room rental available, Waxing....

Call Wida with inquiries 604~782~9412

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127 HAIRCAREPROFESSIONALS

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positions for our Maple Ridge Locations.

Also Hair Stylists for our Management team

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Call Sam 778-898-4120

130 HELP WANTED

EXPERIENCED WELDER to make gate and fence & install.

(604)460-1020

FLAGGERS NEEDEDIf not certifi ed, training available for

a fee. Call 604-575-3944

115 EDUCATION


130 HELP WANTED

Housecleaner needed immediately to work with a team. No evenings. Must have car, speak & write English. Part time may lead to full. Company based in Maple Ridge. Will train.

Send resume to: [email protected]

Otter Co-opYours for Value, Yours for Service

Part-time Warehouse Person

Otter Co-op at Pitt Meadows is seeking a part time Ware-house Person. Your schedule is fl exible and will allow for call-ins and full time work when you are needed. You must be an outgoing self-starter, and be available mornings, afternoons, week-ends and holidays. You are well groomed, physically strong and willing to take on a variety of duties and challenges.

Please apply to: Jacky Graham, Branch Manager,

Otter Co-op @ Pitt Meadows 12343 Harris Road, Pitt Meadows, B.C.

V3Y 2J5

email: [email protected]

Fax# 604-465-0718

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130 HELP WANTED

Roofers and Labourers re-quired immediately in Kam-loops and Cranbrook, BC. Candidate will have 1-3 years of commercial fl at roofi ng ex-perience, driver’s licence and transportation. Send resume:shannon@westernroofi ng.ca

SERVICE TECH & INSTALLEROVER HEAD DOOR CO. in Surrey is looking for an Industrial door ser-vice tech & Installer. Must have exp. & valid Drivers Lic. Fax re-sume to 604-888-8828 or email:[email protected]

115 EDUCATION


130 HELP WANTED

Spices and Herbs Merchandiser/ Route Driver

Permanent part-time 5-8 hours Wed, Thurs, Fri

Calling on current and new customers.

Must be able to lift 25lbs. Must have clean driver abstract

Spice & Herb packer/warehouse worker, strictly part time.

Fax to 604-465-4372www.natureschoice.ca

115 EDUCATION


130 HELP WANTED

We are still hiring - Dozer & excava-tor operators required by a busy Alberta oilfi eld construction company. We require operators that are experienced and preference will be given to operators that have constructed oilfi eld roads and drilling locations. You will be provided with motels and restaurant meals. Competitive wages, bonus and transportation daily to and from job sites. Our work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Call 780-723-5051.

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Advertising Sales ConsultantPeace Arch News, a twice-weekly award-winning newspaper has an outstanding opportunity for a full-time sales person.The successful candidate will have a university or college education or two years of sales experience - preferably in the advertising or retail industry. The ability to build relationships with clients and offer superior customer service is a must. The winning candidate will be a team player and will also be called upon to grow the account list with an aggressive cold calling mandate. The ability to work in an extremely fast-paced environment with a positive attitude is a must.We offer a great working environment with a competitive base salary and commission plan coupled with a strong benefit package.Black Press has over 170 community newspapers across Canada and the United States and for the proven candidate the opportunities are endless.Please submit your resume with a cover letter by Friday, September 30, 2011 to:.Rita Walters, Advertising Sales ManagerThe Peace Arch News #200 - 2411 - 160th St., Surrey, BC V3S 0C8 or e-mail: [email protected] phone calls please

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Opportunity for an outstanding

Multi-MediaJournalist

The Abbotsford News, a tri-weekly publication serving more than 45,000 homes, has an opening for a full-time, multi-media journalist.The successful candidate will have diverse writing capabilities, including a fl air for narrative. Advanced photography and video skills will be key attributes, as well as excellent time management.An ideal applicant will have a strong grasp of social media best practices (Twitter, Facebook, etc.), a passion for online journalism, and an understanding of how to tailor content accordingly. We are looking for someone who will be a key contributor to the core print product, while bringing creativity and innovation to our web-based branding.Knowledge of basic Photoshop, iMovie and InDesign is a must. Candidates should have a diploma/degree in journalism, or a related fi eld. The successful candidate will show keen attention to detail, work well under deadline pressures, and be willing to learn in a fast-paced environment, as well as have the ability to teach others as new strategies and techniques are incorporated into our media package.The Abbotsford News is part of Black Press, Canada’s largest private, independent newspaper company, with more than 150 community, daily and urban newspapers in B.C., Alberta, Washington State, Ohio and Hawaii.Those interested should submit a resume, writing samples and a cover letter to:Andrew Holota, EditorThe Abbotsford News34375 Gladys Avenue,Abbotsford, B.C. V2S2H5or e-mail: [email protected] for applications: September 28, 2011We thank all those who are interested in this position, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES 109 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION

130 HELP WANTED

CARRIERS NEEDEDThe following routes are now available to deliver the NEWS

in Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows

40045 - McClure Ave, 106 Ave, Zeron Ave, 239 St, 240 St, 238A St.40109 - Lougheed Hwy, Harrison St, Olund Cres, Gillis Pl, 113 Ave40214 - 125 Ave, Morse Cres, 127 Ave, 224 St40223 - Eagle Ave, 122 Ave, 121A Ave, Peach Tree Crt, 231 St, Blossom St40262 - Spring Ave, Exeter Ave, 126 Ave, Thornton Ave, 216 St.40304 - Dewdney Trunk Rd, Hood St, 214 St, Ashbury Crt40327 - Patterson Ave, 118 Ave, 203 St40334 - Lorne Ave, Wanstead St, Ospring St, Princess St40335 - Dale Dr, Walnut Cres, 204 St, Pinda Pl40350 - 123 Ave, 124 Ave, Cherry Pl, Laity St, Carlton St, 214 St40351 - 122 Ave, Stonehouse Ave, 123 Ave, Creston St, 216 St40369 - 122 Ave, 121B Ave, Dewdney Trunk Rd, 203 St40376 - 121 Ave, Telep Ave, 202 St40378 - 124 Ave, Powell Ave, Brooks Ave, 205 St40384 - 125 Ave, Meadow Pl, 124 Ave, Blanshard St, 40429 - Dewdney Trunk Rd, 120B Ave, 121 Ave, 238B St, 239B St40432 - Docksteader Circ, Docksteader Loop, Foreman Dr, 229 St, 229B St, 230 St, 139A Ave40434 - Foreman Dr, Vista Ridge Cres, 232 St41033 - Hoffman Way, Thorburn Way, Sutton Ave, Carter Cl

If you live on or near one of these routes and you are

interested in delivering papersplease call circulation @ 604-466-6397 and quote

the Route number.

Retail Sales Professional Wanted

Work for the leader in the appliance industry!

TRAIL APPLIANCES Ltd. COQUITLAM

Do you enjoy coming to work each day and being surrounded by high end products? If so, why not consider employment with Trail Appliances? We are the in-dustry leader and carry all of the top name appliance brands. This is an ideal role for someone with a strong sales background, someone who enjoys meeting new people each day and can easily build and sustain strong business relationships.

Candidates must be available to work all days of the week. Because of the large inventory of product we sell, the ability to learn a large amount of product knowledge is required. The successful candidate will be part of our fully paid, intensive, in house training program. Candi-dates should be fl uent in English; the ability to speak Korean or Farsi would be an additional asset. If this sounds like the job you would be interested in long of your dreams and you would like to be considered...

Please send me your resume to [email protected].

133 HOSPITALITY

✫ SERVERS

Sparta Greek Taverna Recruiting for

evening & weekend shifts. Must have 2 years experience

Drop resume after 4:00 p.m. at: 2232 McAllister Avenue,

Port Coquitlam or

E-mail: [email protected]

134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES

F/T Sushi Chef & Kitchen Chef - Hamada Japanese Rest. (Maple Ridge) High School grad 3-5yrs exp Eng/Kor $18.75/hr 604-463-7535

KITCHEN HELPER, NEEDED P/T, 3 days/week to start, 10am-4pm. Exp necessary. Fax resumes to: 604-944-6304 or email: [email protected]


134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES

Hiring Night Shift for all locations.

Must be able to work till late on weekends & weekdays and have transportation.

Full time / Part time, Benefi ts available,

and competitive wage

Send resume and hours available to

#101 12473 Harris Road, Pitt Meadows, BC or email [email protected]

Subject “Closer”

139 MEDICAL/DENTAL

REPROCESSING/STERILIZATION Technician required immediately for a short 1 month contract in the beautiful Okanagan. Graduation from a recognized Reprocessing /Sterilization Technician Training program. One year recent related experience is also required. 1- 866- 355-8355 www.travelnurse.ca

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142 OFFICE SUPPORT/CLERKS

EXECUTIVE Assistant needed for a forward-thinking company . Appli-cant should be competent with Mi-crosoft Excel, Word and Power-Point. Send resumes to [email protected]

151 PROFESSIONALS/MANAGEMENT

COST ACCOUNTANT IMW IN-DUSTRIES in Chilliwack, BC is cur-rently seeking a fulltime Cost/Pro-ject Accountant. This position will work closely with Engineering and Sales to develop and maintain stan-dard costs and pricing, evaluate job profi tability and assist with month end preparation. Candidates should be working towards or recently completed a CGA or CMA designa-tion. Profi ciency in MS-Excel is nec-essary and experience with ERP systems in a manufacturing envi-ronment is preferred. To learn more about this position please visit our website at www.imw.ca. E-mail re-sumes to: [email protected]

PHARMACY Technician required immediately for a beautiful coastal BC community. Graduation from a recognized Pharmacy Technician Training program. One year recent related experience is also required. Effective verbal and written commu-nication, effective interpersonal skills, and the ability to organize work. Call 1-866-355-8355www.travelnurse.ca

160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

ALTERNATIVE FOREST Op-erations is a dynamic growing BC Forestry business, provid-ing extraordinary performance for our customers and crew. We have immediate openings for the following positions. . Skyline Hooktender. Rigging Slingers. Chokermen. Certifi ed FallersIf you are a safe high level performer, experienced and work well with others contact us! Mail resume to AFO, 3818 Cowichan Lake Rd, Duncan, BC, V9L 6K2. Email:[email protected]: www.heli-log.com

BUSY Langley based Commercial Landscape Construction Company is currently seeking motivated indi-viduals to join their team. The fol-lowing positions are available: Hard Landscape Foreman Hard Land-scape Labour General Labour Ma-chine Operator General Landscape Foreman Competitive wages, bene-fi ts and incentives. Wages start from $16/hour and can exceed $30/hour based on experi-ence/qualifi cations. Please fax re-sume to 604-882-0083 or [email protected] Clearly mark what position you are applying for and wage expectations.

FULL-TIMETRUSS BUILDERS &

LABOURERSReq. for Truss Manufacturer in Pitt Meadows. Wage commensu-rate with experience. Benefi ts after 6 mos. (Full-Time).

Please fax resume:604-465-9176 or e-mail:[email protected]


160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

Flat RoofersMetro Roofi ng requires exp. Flat Roofers, BUR, torch, single ply (TPO & PVC). Commercial and Industrial Projects.Sheet Metal Applicators

Must have previous experience installing roof fl ashing’s. All work to RCABC Standards & Specifi -cations. LABOURERS Also required.Good Wages & Benefi ts

Call: 604.888.4856Serious Enquiries Only!

HEAVY DUTY or Commercial Transport Mechanic required. Competitive wages and bene-fi ts. Please email: [email protected] fax (250-416-0232) or deliver resume to Profab Manufactur-ing Ltd. 3128 Hope Place, Chemainus BC. May consider 3rd year apprentice.

LEAD ROOF TECHNICIAN$28.00 - $38.00 per hour based on experience. Commercial roof-ing co. hiring lead roofers with extensive exp. in commercial roofi ng, including: two - ply torch, single ply, sloped and metal.

Offering Great Benefi ts Including: Company Vehicle, Paid Travel, Support Crews, Top Wages, Health/Dental,

Pension & Company Uniforms.

Must have proven ability to install using RCABC roofi ng practices and follow WCB regulations.

Fax resume: 604-944-2916, Call Adam: 604-944-2977 or e-mail

aknipfel@designroofi ng.caVisit: www.designroofi ng.ca

PAINTERS Northstar Painting requires F/T & P/T experienced painters now! Contact by email:

WANTED FRAMERS HELPER

Highly motivated individuals for Framers helper in Maple Ridge area. Steel toes, hardhat, tools & own transportation required.

Wage negotiable depending on exp. Phone Todd 604-928-7511 or Dayne 604-908-7371

Want to advance your career?

Drillers Assistants (labour) Entry level positionsJob entails:

Lift 25-100lbs, repetitive manual labor, working outdoors, long hours, travel in BC, strong work ethic, team player, multitasking, self-motivated. Ability to take direction, valid BC drivers license, clean abstract, reliable transportation. Mechanicallyinclined an asset.Provide resume and drivers abstract to:

[email protected] or fax to 604-888-4206.

No phone calls.

161 TRAVEL/TOURISM

2ND CAREER Opportunity - Travel agency expanding in POCO seeks independent travel counselor FT or PT. Must be mature individual with a passion for travel, computer knowledge and communications skills a must. Training, support, top commissions, personal travel bene-fi ts. No investment req. Reply to [email protected]

PERSONAL SERVICES

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173A COUNSELLING

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One affordable monthly payment, interest free. For debt restructuring on YOUR terms, not your creditors. Call 1-866-690-3328 or see web

site: www.4pillars.ca

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad cred-it? Bills? Unemployed? Need Mon-ey? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Accep-tance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.

www.pioneerwest.com

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

203 ACCOUNTING/TAX/BOOKKEEPING

Bookkeeping & AccountingPayroll, Year-end, Financial Statements, Income Taxes

E-FILE Service Ph: 604-465-2123

Cellular: 604-788-0161

236 CLEANING SERVICES

“AN EXTRA HAND” Exp. Hardwork-ing, reliable cleaning lady. Rea-sonable rates Louise 604.467.3665

Brisk Home Cleaners

Weekly W Bi-Weekly W MonthlyInsured & Bonded, Exc. ref’s.www.briskcleaners.comTerri 604.837.1709

CLEANING SERVICE, reliable and trustworthy, worked in the area for many years. 604-466-1149 or 604-782-0305

CLEANING SPECIAL $25/hour minimum 2hrs.

Price includes cleaning supplies. Also laminate fl ooring and paint specials. Free estimates. A-TECH Services at 604-230-3539

INTEX VENTURESJanitorial, Offi ce/Window Cleaning✶10 years exp. ✶Free Estimates4 6 5 - 1 3 0 2 ✶ 7 8 6 - 3 4 6 6

242 CONCRETE & PLACING

HERFORT CONCRETENO JOB TOO SMALL

Serving Lower Mainland 23 Years! *Prepare *Form *Place *Finish

*Retaining Walls *Stairs *DrivewaysExposed Aggregate & Stamped

Concrete ***ALSO...Interlocking Bricks &Sod Placement

-Excellent Ref’s -WCB Insured

LEO: Mobile #657-2375, 462-8620

UNIQUE CONCRETEDESIGN

F All types of concrete work FF Re & Re F Forming F Site prepFDriveways FExposed FStamped

F Bobcat Work F WCB Insured778-231-9675, 778-231-9147

FREE ESTIMATES


257 DRYWALL45 Years in the drywall trade. All size jobs boarding, taping, spraying. Big or small. Wayne 778-242-2060

COMPLETE DRYWALL SERVICE, res/com. Ref’s. Reno’s. Reas. rates. 604-941-8261, cell 778-999-2754.

FRANKS Drywall *Boarding*Taping *Spraying no job too sm. Seniors rts Free ests. 604-939-7029, 809-1945

260 ELECTRICAL

104607

Big Mountain Electric Bonded, experienced

Friendly service Reasonable price No job too small Reno’s/Additions

778-892-4299#1167 $25 service call, BBB Lge &small jobs. Expert trouble shooter, WCB. Low rates 24/7 604-617-1774

DC ELECTRIC (#37544). Bonded. 24 hr service. We specialize in jobs too small for the big guys! 30 yrs exp. Free est. 460-8867.

REISINGER Electrical (#102055) Bonded, Specializing in Renos, New Const, (Comm./Res.)Free Est 25 Yrs Exp. 778.885.7074 Trent

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call Lic #89402 Same day guarn’td We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

269 FENCINGFENCE-IT-RIGHT Installations -- 604.639.6626 Cedar, Chain Link, Ornamental iron, Vinyl (Insured, Experienced, Competitive Pricing)

275 FLOOR REFINISHING/INSTALLATIONS

Ceramic Tiles, Hardwood LaminateGuaranteed work, Free Estimate.

Cell 604-618-6401 Marcel.

281 GARDENING

Prompt Delivery AvailableSeven Days a Week

Meadows LandscapeSupply Ltd.

✶ Bark Mulch✶ Lawn & Garden Soil

✶ Drain Grave Lava Rock✶ River Rock ✶Pea Gravel

(604)465-1311meadowslandscapesupply.com

283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTSGUTTER CLEANING

Xmas Light installs, Power washing. (604)786-8769

M.T. GUTTERSProfessional Installation5” Gutter, Down Pipe, Soffi t28 YRS EXP. *FULLY INSURED

Cleaning & Repairing

Call Tim 604-612-5388

283A HANDYPERSONS

HANDYMAN SERVICES Reno’s,

Clean-ups, Hauling,

Home Improvements778.994.4736

287 HOME IMPROVEMENTSA-1 CONTRACTING. Renos. Bsmt, kitchens, baths, custom cabinets, tiling, plumbing, sundecks, reroofi ng. Dhillon 604-782-1936.

A50 -- Friday, September 23, 2011 -- THE NEWS - www.mapleridgenews.com

JOBS: Whether you’re looking to find or fill aposition, this is where your search begins.Call bcclassified.com 604.575.5555


287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

CHOICE RENOVATIONS

Bsmt suites, bathrooms, windowssiding, H/W tank installation, etc

NO JOB TOO SMALL

Gary 467-3024Cellular 604-671-9694

EAGLE TILE101 - 19070 Lougheed Hwy,

Pitt MeadowsA - 20779 Lougheed Hwy

Maple Ridge Your local natural stone

distributors. Custom made Granite Countertops.Slate Granite MarbleTile Tumbled stone.

Large selection of Porcelain & Ceramic Sales & Service

604.463.0718 ~ 604.460.6656

Home Renovations and New Construction

Kitchens, Bathrooms, Flooring, Drywall, Garages, Decks & more

* 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE*INSURED ~ WCB

Dean 604-834-3076

HOOT & OWLRenovations & repairs

Email: hoot&[email protected] 604-339-5430

NEED HELP?Skilled carpenter available

for evening & weekend work.Brian 604-477-0147


287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

288 HOME REPAIRS

Repairs, Maintenance, Renovation Guaranteed work, Free Estimate.

Cell: 604-618-6401. Marcel.

300 LANDSCAPING

D Garden Blend SoilD Lawn Blend SoilD Custom Blends avail.D Composted Mushroom Manure NO Wood byproducts used

When QUALITY Mattersall soils are tested for Optimum

growing requirements

17607 FORD ROAD, PITT MEADOWS

PICK-UP ...... OR .... DELIVERY

604-465-3189JAGUAR LANDSCAPING

Lawn & Garden Service. Design, Pruning, Lawns, Cleanups, Comm/Res. (604)462-1369


300 LANDSCAPING

DUTCH TOUCHGreen Services Ltd

Landscape ConstructionRenovations W Maintenance

604-463-3644604-861-1490

.

SAWDUSTHemlock, Fir & Cedar

Available for DeliveryCall for pricing

604-465-5193 or 604-465-5197www.augustinesoilandmulch.com

317 MISC SERVICES

✶Dump Site Now Open✶SBroken Concrete RocksS

$22.00 Per Metric TonSMud Dirt Sod ClayS

$22.00 Per metric TonGrassSBranchesSLeavesSWeeds

$59.00 Per TonMeadows Landscape Supply

604-465-1311

320 MOVING & STORAGE

1PRO MOVING & SHIPPING. We move - We ship - We recycle.Senior- Student Discount available. 604-721-4555 or 604-800-9488.

AFFORDABLE MOVINGLocal & Long Distance

From $45/Hr1, 3, 5, 7,10 Ton Trucks

Licenced ~ Reliable ~ 1 to 3 MenFree estimate/Seniors discount

Residential~Commercial~Pianos

604-537-4140

SPARTAN Moving Ltd. Fast & Reliable. Insured

Competitive rates. Wknd Specials. Call Frank: (604) 435-8240

329 PAINTING & DECORATING

# 1 PAY-LESS Painting Ext./Int. FALL Special

LOOK for our YARD SIGNS D Free estimates D Insured

Licensed D ReferencesResidential D Pressure Washing

Serving Tri City 32 Yrs. Call 24 Hrs/7 Days

paylesspainting.multiply.comScott 604-891-9967

2 HUNGRY PAINTERS & Power Washing. Low prices. Int/Ext. Man & wife 75 years combined exp. 604.467.2532 twohungrypainters.ca

778-344-1069

Big jobs-Small jobs-We do it all!WCB Insured - BondedVisa & M/C acceptedCall 7 days/week778-344-1069

[email protected]

A-1 PAINTING CO.604.723.8434

Top Quality PaintingExterior / Interior

• Insured • WCB • Written Guarantee

• Free Est. • 20 Years Exp.AAA PRECISION PAINTING. Quality work. 778-881-6096.


329 PAINTING & DECORATING

ACCURATE PROFESSIONAL PAINTING SERVICES

3 Rooms for $299. Powerwashing New const.

Apartment repaints. Int/Ext No Job’s too small.

Free Estimate

778-834-6234

A-TECH Services 604-230-3539Running this ad for 7yrs

PAINT SPECIAL3 rooms for $269,

2 coats any colour (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls

Cloverdale Premium quality paint.NO PAYMENT until Job is

completed. Ask us about ourLaminate Flooring &

Maid Services. www.paintspecial.com

“ ABOVE THE REST “Int. & Ext., Unbeatable Prices, Professional Crew. Free Est.

Written Guarantee. No Hassle, Quick Work, Insured, WCB.

Call (778)997-9582

Stardust Painting Commercial & Residential Service, Interior & Exterior. Member of BBB since 1975 Call John (604)889-8424

332 PAVING/SEAL COATING

ALLAN Const. & Asphalt. Brick, conc, drainage, found. & membrane repair. 604-618-2304; 820-2187.

338 PLUMBING

✔ ALL YOUR PLUMBING NEEDSCall Niko Plumbing Ltd. 24/7. Res/Com, plugged drains. h/w tanks. ★15 yrs exp. 604-837-6640

$69/HR. Lic., Insured. Experienced & friendly service. Clogged drains, garburators, leaks & more. Sm jobs OK. Call anytime 604-805-2488.

341 PRESSURE WASHING

DAVIDS WINDOW CLEANINGWindowsW GuttersW Siding Washing

Pressure/Hand WashingFree Estimates

4 6 5 - 1 3 0 2 W 7 8 6 - 3 4 6 6

POWER WASHINGGUTTER CLEANING

SAME DAY SERVICE AVAILABLE Call Ian 604-724-6373

353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

RIDGE MEADOWS ROOFING. Res Re-roofi ng & repairs WCB BBB A+ rating Free est. 604-377-5401

ROOFING... All work is guaranteed and over 10 years experience Call now for a free estimate and written quote: 604-217-2879

356 RUBBISH REMOVAL

RECYCLE-IT!JUNK REMOVAL

Recycled Earth Friendly• Electronics • Appliances • Old Furniture • Construction • Yard

Waste • Concrete • Drywall• Junk • Rubbish • MattressesOn Time, As Promised, Service Guaranteed!

604.587.5865www.recycle-it-now.com

RUBBISH removal. Bobcat/dump trailer. Reno/repairs. hoot&[email protected] Gary 604-339-5430.

359 SAND, GRAVEL & TOPSOIL

TOPSOIL• SCREENED TOPSOIL• MUSHROOM MANURE• BARK MULCH

604-467-3003

372 SUNDECKS

RAINFOREST DECK & RAILD Deck Rebuilds & AdditionsD Vinyl Waterproofi ngD 10 Year No Leak WarrantyD Aluminum & Glass Rails

The Last Deck You Will Ever Need!

Call: 604-725-9574www.rainforestdeckandrail.com


372 SUNDECKS

The DECK GuysD Sundeck / Patio ConstructionD Re-build/Extend Existing DecksD Authorized vinyl deck installersD Aluminum, glass, wood railingsD Sundeck & Vinyl RepairsD 5 Year Warranty on Vinyl*Work Guaranteed *References

*Over 20 Years Experience.

Free estimates 604-418-8340

373B TILINGProf. tile installation, top quality workmanship, great comp. prices Free est. Call today 604-727-3529.

374 TREE SERVICES

A1-TRI-CRAFT Tree Serv. Dangerous tree removal, spiral pruning hedge trimming, stump grinding, topping. Insured, WCB Free Est

Arborist ReportsAndrew 604-618-8585

$ Best Rates $

A.C.TREE SERVICE

30 years experience

Bob Fitz-James604-467-0333

.

PAUL BUNYANTree Service

* ISA Certifi ed Arborist*Hazard Tree Removal

* Crown Reduction & Falling* Stump Grinding

*Prune & Hedge Trim* Arborist Reports

Insured WCBFree Estimates

604-942-6907

Your LOCAL Tree Service,

For Honest Prices & Quality Work

Call Scott at604-618-0333

Certifi ed Arborist

Free Estimates *Fully Insured

PETS

477 PETS2 female Jack Russell Puppies for sale. They have there fi rsts shots ,dewormed and vet checked. $400 ea Contact: Isabell at 604-476-6615

BABY COCKATIELS for sale. Hand fed. $50 each.

Phone (604)951-4660 (Surrey).BEAGLE PUPS, tri colored, good looking, healthy, vet check $600. (604)796-3026. No Sunday callsBERNESE MOUNTAIN dog pup-pies, vet checked, 1st shots. Jen 604-807-3853 / [email protected] PITBULL PUPPIES. 2 boys, 2 girls, $800. obo. Call 604-783-8607.Boston Terriers pups, ckc reg, vet checked, reputable breeder, excel-lent pedigree. (604)794-3786CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION in need of caring homes! All cats are

Spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed. Visit us at

fraservalleyhumanesociety.com or call 1 (604)820-2977

ENGLISH MASTIFF P/B PUPS Fawn & Brindle. CKC reg. $1200. Call 604-782-3864.LAB/CHOW cross 6yr/old male with sweet gentle temperament, has all shots. 604-340-3162, 604-541-2147LAB PUPS, Chocolate, $700. vet ch, dew-claws rem. 1st shots, de-wormed. qual. lines (604)702-0217LAB PUPS, yellows & blacks, CKC reg p/b, shots, tattooed, exc temp, view parents, $800. 604-462-0774.LABS, 2 fem black & 2 male yellow ready Oct 1st. 1st shots & dewom-red, $650, ph: (604)803-9999MALTESE pups, 2 Males, 1st shots, vet ✔, dewormed, N/S. $800. Home raised. 604-464-5077NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604-856-3647 or www.856-dogs.comNEWFOUNDLAND pups, P/B. 2 males, 1 black/1 brown. $1000 (604)819-1466 No Sunday calls

PETS

477 PETSTOY POMERANIANS. 7 wks. M & F. Vet ✓, healthy, 1st shots, de-wormed, $750 up. 778-839-8007

VIZSLA PUPS, PB, shots, guar-anteed. Champion lines, $750. 604-819-2115. [email protected]

YELLOW LAB PUPS. Ready to go. Vet checked, 1st. shots. Parents on site. $400. 604-852-6176 AbbtsYorkshire Terrier pups, CKC, 2M/1F, tails dock, dew claws, mi-cro. Ready Nov. (604)858-9758

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

509 AUCTIONSHUGE RESTAURANT AUCTION Deli & Food Services Equipment. Consignment now being accepted. June 4, 11am at Dodds Auction, 3311 - 28 Ave Vernon. View photos at doddsauction.com 250-545-3259

518 BUILDING SUPPLIESSteel Buildings. Reduced Factory Inventory. 30x36 – Reg $15,850 Now $12,600; 36x58 – Reg $21,900 Now $18,800; 48x96 – Reg $48,700 Now $41,900; 81x130 – Reg $121,500 Now $103,900Source# 1L0 800-964-8335

524 UNDER $2005 PIECE white wicker Furn (corner stand, 3drawer chest, dressing table, mirror & stool) $200. (604)466-4817

548 FURNITURE

#1 Cash Buyer“Since 1987”

$$CASH $$ for your furniture,tools, electronics, antiques,

appliances, computers& collectibles.

WW ANYTHING OF VALUE WW

Single items to entirehouseholds

463-4449 or209-6583

MATTRESSES staring at $99• Twins • Fulls • Queens • Kings

100’s in stock! www.Direct Liquidation.ca (604)294-2331

.

560 MISC. FOR SALEHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

NEW ELECTRIC FIREPLACE

Cost $925, Sale $375

604 - 460 - 8741

566 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

RUBY RIVER BABY GRAND - Ebony

$15,000 value-will sell $8000/obo.

Pristine condition

(604)824-0107

REAL ESTATE

603 ACREAGE

82.8 ACRES, 300’ lakefront, S Cariboo. Beautiful, pastoral, private, rural setting. Borders crown land. Adjacent 80+ acre parcel available.

www.bchomesforsale.com/view/lonebutte/ann/

625 FOR SALE BY OWNERBEAUTIFUL Updated 3120sq ft 5 bdrm Rancher with basement on 1/4 acre $439,000. 34629 Ascott Ave Abbotsford 604-761-9341

REAL ESTATE

625 FOR SALE BY OWNER

Deluxe Retirement LivingQuality built & designed with seniors in mind. One bedroom + solarium/den. Stunning mountain view. Short walk to retail/business-es in downtown Maple Ridge. Seniors’ facilities on ground fl oor featuring all services and programs $298,000 Call Donald 604.467.0176

626 HOUSES FOR SALE

Maple Ridge Central$489,000

5 Bedroom full basement homeon quiet fully fenced 9600 sqft corner lot. 2 full baths, 2 F/P, A/C Laundry, huge sundeck,

fresh paint. Brookside Realty ~ Dave

604-240-3523

630 LOTS

Amazing Okanagan LakeView lot priced to sell almost 1 acre, nicely treed. $229,000 well below appraised value. (250)542-6167

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKSNEW SRI Mobile, Modular and manufactured homes on display in Abbotsford. Chuck 604-830-1960.

New SRI Single and double wides in Ruskin park with river view from

$89,900. Chuck 604-830-1960

REPOSSESSED MOBILE HOMESto be moved, 1974-2008.

Chuck 604-830-1960.

636 MORTGAGESMortgage Help! Beat bank rates for purchases and refi nances, im-mediate debt consolidation, foreclo-sure relief, and equity loans. Free, fast, friendly, private consultations.

Call 1-888-685-6181www.mountaincitymortgage.ca

638 OPEN HOUSEPORT COQUITLAM, 1615 Magel-lan, 3 bdrm., 3 baths, corner lot. Freshly updated. Open house Sun. Sept 25, 12-2. Artur (778)227-1342

640 RECREATIONAL

RARE OPPORTUNITY: wa-terfront property on beautiful Jim Lake, .83-acre with 360 sq ft insulated cabin, located near Green Lake/Watch Lake (70 Mile House). Rare privacy, only three lots on the lake, good fi shing for rainbows to 10 lbs, nice swimming, surround-ed by crown land. Great trails for hiking, ATV and snowmo-bile. Seasonal 10-km back road access in 4x4 or pick-up. FSBO. $230,000. 250-395-0599. (Please see bchomesfor-sale.com/70mile/frank.)

660 LANGLEY/ALDERGROVEHOMES FOR SALE-SUPER BUYS

www.dannyevans.caHomelife Benchmark Realty Corp. Langley

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

604-464-7548 #1 IN RENTALS (Since 1990)

Professional Property Management Services for LANDLORDS (Tri City)

Maple Ridge 224th St. 2 bdrm grnd. fl r condo, approx 946 s/f. avail now, ns/np/refs. $1150/mo.

BBY nr Lough. Mall, upper 2 fl rs of family home, 5 bdrms, dbl gar-age, ns/np/refs, $1900 +3/4 utils.

Coquitlam 4 bdrm family home, approx 2600 sq/ft, dble garage, ns/np/refs, avail Oct 1st. $2000.

P.Meadows brand new 1bd+den, 2 & 3 bdrms in Solaris Towers, 5 appls, nr WCE,shops,parks,schls. NS/NP,refs. Rents Start@ $1150

2 BDRM, 2 bath. Insuite w/d. Se-cured 2 car prkng. Incl heat h/wtr. NS/ NP. Ref req. $1200 plus dep. Avail Oct 1. Call 604-617-2615

BRENTWOOD ApartmentsPitt Meadows

Deluxe 2 Bdrms.Gas F/P, D/W, garburator,

lndry hook-up, underground prk. Across from Elem. School.

Walk to W. Coast Express. No pets.

For more information, google us.Phone 604-465-9823

MAPLE RIDGE, Central. 11735-225 St. 2 bdrm. $900 incl heat & h.w. No dogs.604-467-9420 or 477-9021

551 GARAGE SALES

12449 Meadowbrook Place, Maple Ridge

Sat. Sept. 24, 9am -3pm

Pre Moving SaleFurniture, Household, Pictures,Single bed, Wall Unit, New &

Used Ladies Clothing XL, Misc items.

23651 Tamarack LaneMaple RidgeSat. & Sun.

Sept. 24, 25/9am - 4pm

Great selection of Halloween& Christmas Decorations

& Crafts. Variety of other Items.

24683 - 103A Ave.Maple Ridge

Sat. Sept. 24th 8am - Noon

Household ItemsLots of Everything!

GARAGE SALE MULTI FAMILY SEPT 24th & OCT 1st 12082 & 12074 238st 9:00 - 3:00 Lots and of household items.

GARAGE SALE Sept. 24 & 25 -24200 Hill Avenue, Maple Ridge.POOL TABLE, Washer & Dryer,various household items. Come

see! 9 AM to 3 PM.

MAPLE RIDGE

DOWNSIZINGGARAGE SALE

Sat, Sept 24th, 9am-4pm

22956 Gilbert Dr.Lots of Nice Stuff!

MAPLE RIDGE

GARAGE SALESAT. SEPT. 24, 9-123877 105TH AVE.

(Nr. Planet Ice)Household items, tools, garden

items and much more

551 GARAGE SALES

Maple RidgeGARAGE/PLANT SALE

SAT. SEPT. 24th8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.

12081 Greenwell St.(off 228th behind ICBC)

Dressage saddle, snaffl e bri-dle, rhodos, azaleas, antiques, collectibles, chop saw, shelv-ing, etc. etc.

COVEREDRAIN OR SHINE

MAPLE RIDGE

GARAGE SALESAT. & SUN. SEPT 24 & 25,

9am-5pm28594 98TH AVE.

Baby stuff, books, household items, etc.

NO EARLY BIRDS PLEASE

Maple RidgeMULTI FAMILYGARAGE SALESat. Sept. 24th

10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.12221 - 201 St.(off Dewdney)Rain or shine

Kids & twins clothes, furn. exercise equip. & misc.

Maple Ridge

YARD SALE This Sat & Sun 9am ~ 7pm

Neon Beer Signs,NEW Rod’s, Reels & Tackle

US Military Clothes, Antiques, Bikes, Garden equip,

Many Collectibles

corner 232nd & 128thAve

Pitt MeadowsMOVING SALE

Sat. & Sun. Sept 24 & 258 a.m. - 3 p.m.

19438 - 118B Ave.Tools & chest, ladders, shop vac, pressure washer, some furniture & household items.

RAIN OR SHINE


RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

Derek Manor2048 Manning Ave.

Port Coq ~ 604-941-5452 or 604-944-7889

FREE PREMIUM CABLE$80 Value

S Impeccably clean S HeatS Hot Water S Parking

1 & 2 bdrm. $780 - $880/moAvail. Oct. 1 - Ref’s req’d.

GARIBALDI Court(604) 463-9522

Central Maple RidgeAvailable Now 3 BEDROOM

Great location for seniors! Clean, quiet & affordable!

Incl. heat, h/w, cable. Senior Move-In Allowance.Refs & Credit check req.

Sorry No PetsFor more info. google us.

MAPLE INN 11695 -224th St

Maple Ridge 1 bdrm$500 includes hot water

Certifi ed Crime Free Building Mature adult oriented.

Close to uptown604-463-4131 for appointment

(9am-5pm)

MAPLE RIDGE

1 & 2 Bdrs from $750/mo

GREAT LOCATIONQueen Anne Apts.

* Renovated Suites *

Clean, very quiet, large,INCLUDES: HEAT,

HOT WATER & HYDRO

Near Shopping & Amenities.

604-463-7450 604-463-2236

12186-224 St, Maple RidgeCertifi ed Crime Free Buildings

Maple Ridge22450-121st Street2 Bedroom Apt $820/mo3 Bedroom Apt $950/mo

Attractive modern unit, in a safe, all ages community in beautiful Maple Ridge. Amenities include community gardens, playground, amenity rooms, on site laundry facilities & secure parking in a certifi ed Crime Free Multi Hous-ing complex. Pet friendly (some exceptions apply). The tenant and other occupants must demonstrate they meet eligibility criteria related to income, number of occupants, and other similar criteria. Please note that fully subsidized, or Rent Geared to Income (RGI) units are fi lled via a waiting list called The BC Housing Central Registry (www.bchousing.org/applicants). No RGI subsidy available at this time. Call 604-451-6075 to view.

Metro Vancouver Housing Corp.

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

MAPLE RIDGE

AVAILABLE NOW1 & 2 BDRM SUITES Heat, hot water & parking. Close to stores & schools.

MAPLE COURT I 22437 121st Ave

604-467-0715&

MAPLE COURT II22423 121st Ave

604-467-4894

Maple Ridge CentralCertifi ed Crime Free Clean, Quiet Building for Mature Adults Only1 Bedroom with gas fi replace

No Pets, Non Smoker$525/mo & up. + util’s (604)467-5271

MAPLE RIDGE Central Mature Adult building 1 Bdrm apt., newly reno’d u/g parking,cable incld $600-$650/mo, n/p, ref’s, For appoint 11am to 5pm (778)327-8405.

Maple Ridge

Glenwood ManorApartments

1 & 2 Bdrms from $685 & $850 & renovated suite with dishwasher $45. extra.

Clean, SpaciousIncludes cable, heat,hot water & parking

Seniors discount21387 Dewdney Trunk Rd

(604)466-5799Maple Ridge

Swan Court ApartmentsLarge 1 & 2 Bedrooms.

Hardwood fl oors, adult oriented, heat, h/w & cable incl’d, f/p, n/pets.Criminal Record check may be reqd

Resident Manager OnsiteNow with

SENIORS DISCOUNT604.477.9189

PITT MEADOWS

The MeadowsGated underground parking, heated outdoor pool. Heat, hot water & 3 appliances included. 2 min. walk to Westcoast Express.

Large 1, 2 & 3 Bdrm Suites Available

Call: 778-882-8894604-465-0008 or 604-465-5818

Polo ClubApartments

19071 Ford Rd. Pitt Meadows

Clean, Quiet Well Managed Bldg.3 Blocks to W.C. Express

W 1 & 2 Bdrm SuitesW 3 Appliances

W Secured Garage ParkingW Adult Oriented

W Ref’s Req’d & Absolutely No Pets

604.465.7221

709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL

PORT COQUITLAM, 2043 sq ft. Ground fl oor, dance/fi tness area. Facing onto city park. 1 blk from Lougheed/Shaughnessy intersec-tion. 604-464-3550.

RENTALS

715 DUPLEXES/4PLEXESMAPLE RIDGE. 2 bdrm duplex, 4 appls, new decor, nr shops, credit & ref req’d. 604-465-4339

736 HOMES FOR RENTMAPLE RIDGE 4 bdrm + den, 2400sqft, 2 storage rooms, double garage incls all appl’s, N/S, N/P avail Nov 1st. $1900. 604-817-7783MAPLE RIDGE Ctrl new reno’d 3 Bdrm upper fl r, 1.5 bath,lrg deck & lrg back yrd, n/p, share w/d, immed $1400+hydro gas incl 604-328-7910MAPLE RIDGE Rent to Own. New-er home. 3 bdrm 3 bath $2500/mo. $350 credit toward purchase. Small downpayment req. 604-418-3162

741 OFFICE/RETAIL

MAPLE RIDGE

OFFICE& RETAIL SPACE

Various downtown locations. Avail. Now! Updated and well maintained. Various sizes 320sf. - 2000sf. Starting at $495/month.

Call: Rick Medhurst, Royal LePage

6 0 4 - 4 6 3 - 3 0 0 0

743 PROPERTY MANAGEMENTCall Maria at ridgemeadows

property management Mon Fri 9-6 604-466-2838 or visit

www.ridgemeadowspropertymanagement.com

746 ROOMS FOR RENT

$75 OFF 1ST MONTHRooms from $435/mo. Fully Furn,

weekly maid service, cable TV,private bath, on bus route, 5/min

walk to commuter rail.

Haney Motor Hotel22222 Lougheed Hwy.,

Maple RidgeInquire in person between

9am - 3pm or Call 604-467-3944

MAPLE RIDGE Private rooms (WiFi & cble) shrd kit. bath, lndry. $500/mo. 778-893-2750.Maple Ridge W. Single Pri. rooms Shrd bath/kitchen. Utils incl. $475. 604-467-4450, 604-833-4450.

748 SHARED ACCOMMODATIONMAPLE RIDGE West, lovely Town-house fully furnished, incls all util’s $500mo avail immed 604-467-9921

750 SUITES, LOWER800SQ.FT.1BDRM,230TH&DEWD-N E Y , C A R P / L A M I -NATE,SHRD.LNDY,SEP.ENTR,NO pets/no smokers,suits working per-son or couple. $800 incl.heat/cbl/intrnt. Oct.1, 604-466-9579MAPLE RIDGE 207th 2 Bdrm n/s, n/p, own W/D, large back yard $880 + % utils, Immed 604-614-6758MAPLE RIDGE: 3/Bdrms, W/D, $1175/mo inclds all utils / cable / int. Immed. 778-242-8903.MAPLE RIDGE Kanaka area 2 bdrm, Living room, F/S. D/W, own W/D, n/s, n/p $950/mo all inlc’d + cable, avail immed. (604)463-7017MAPLE RIDGE. large 2 bdrm near SRT, well maint, furn or unfurn’d, full amens, park-like setting, N/S, $1200/mo. Nov 1st 604-476-1335.MAPLE RIDGE near SRT. New 1 bdrm walk-out bsmt, avail now, ns/np, $750 +utils. 604-928-5012.MAPLE RIDGE. Newer 1 bdrm bsmt suite. 5 appls., Sep ent. park-ing. N/S. 750 sf. Avail. now. $750/mo incl utils. 604-790-1410.MAPLE RIDGE: Newer 2 bdrm bsmt, incl lndry, gas/elec, $850/mo. Avail Oct. 1. NP/NS. (604)466-2914

RENTALS

750 SUITES, LOWER

MAPLE RIDGE Shady Lane 124th

2 Bedroom Suite Own driveway ~ entry & side yard.

Lots of storage, share W/D, Close to hospital & school,

N/S, pet neg. $950 incls wifi , hydro & gas. Available. 604.477.8307

MAPLE RIDGE spacious new 1 bdrm suite, nr amens, ns/np, avail now. $675 +utils. 778-867-9454.

MAPLE RIDGE, spacious newer 1 Bdrm suite on quiet acreage, min. to downtown util’s incl n/s, n/p, $650/mo. Oct. 1 604-462-0836

MAPLE RIDGE West. 1 bdrm. F/P, W/D. priv entry. N/S. N/P. Avail now. $700/mo. 604-319-1993.

MAPLE RIDGE WEST Bright & spacious

2 Bedroom basement suite. No pets, No Smoking.

Close to amenities Available Immediately.

$950/mo incls utils 604-765-4074

MAPLE RIDGE West. Lrg freshly painted 1 bdrm. Own W/D. Nr bus & express. $740 incl utils. n/p Now 604-459-3338,778-995-1813.

MAPLE RIDGE W. Newer 2 bdrm grnd level, $900 incl cbl/utils/net. Nr amens. Oct 1. Call 604-351-0005.

PITT MEADOWS 1 bdrm, $600 incl util & cbl. NS/NP. Single mature person. Avail now. 604-465-4835

POCO NORTH 2 bdrm. $850mo incl util/cbl N/S N/P. Ref req’d Avail now Quiet person 604-518-9020

751 SUITES, UPPER

MAPLE RIDGE, 3bdrm f/p d/w, cvrd deck, shr lndry. n/s, n/p. $1400 inc. Oct. 1-15 604-465-2187

Maple Ridge Central3 Bedroom Upper

Huge yard, FireplaceHardwood fl oors

$1400/moBrookside Realty ~ Dave

604-240-3523MAPLE RIDGE, W. 3 bdrm top fl r. 2 baths. 1400 s/f. Quiet st. $1350. 604-467-4450 or 604-833-4450.

PITT MEADOWS - Upper House12535-188st, very BRIGHT, CLEAN

3 BR + Den; 2 Bath; 2750 sfLarge deck & yard on ¾ Acre Lot

$1900 inc. landscaping; Avail. NOW Peak Property Mgmt (604)931-8666

752 TOWNHOUSES

PITT MEADOWS: 2 - 3 bdrm co-op T/H $1030/mo - $1134/mo. Shares req’d. No subsidy available. Orien-tation 2nd & 4th Sun. 2 pm & 3rd Tues. 7 pm each mo. 19225 119th Ave., Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 2B2. Leave msg 604-465-1938

Pitt Meadows 3 Bedroom + den

3 year new house $2100/moPlease call Tom

Fraser Property Mgmt604.466.7021

TRANSPORTATION

806 ANTIQUES/CLASSICS

1988 Lincoln TOWN CAR, fully loaded, very good cond. New bumper / alternator & tuneup air-cared $1800 obo. 604-463-8087

TRANSPORTATION

810 AUTO FINANCING

Auto Loans ApprovedLargest dealer GroupHuge Selection Free Delivery to BC/AB

Cars Trucks SUV’s VansApply online

autocredit911.comCall toll-free 1-888-635-9911

818 CARS - DOMESTIC

1997 FORD ESCORT wagon, 67,000 km, mint, garage kept, one owner. $4500. 604-869-3313

2008 Buick Allure 7,900 kms. Red, chrome pkg. Under warranty til Sept/2013. $16,900. 604-464-6397.

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

2003 TOYOTA COROLLA, silver, a/c, 5 spd, no accidents, exc cond, $5950. Call: (604)599-0170

2005 ACURA RSX Rare Luxury Sport Model / pristine condition.Only 45,000Ks. With I-V TEC 4 cyl. Lady driven - loaded, 5 speed. $14,500/OBO. 604-538-2239.

OKANAGAN’S Largest Used Car Super Store. Always open online at: www.bcmotorproducts.com 250-545-2206

827 VEHICLES WANTED

TRANSPORTATION

838 RECREATIONAL/SALE

1996 SEABREEZE tri axle 5th whl. 36’ deluxe model, lots extras, $22,000 obo. Phone (604)535-5693

2011 LAREDO 291TG

Elec. awning, elec. stab jacks, “family sized” dinette, LCD TV, Microwave.$29,995 (Stk.30854)

www.fraserwayrv.com1-800-806-1976 DL #30644

2011 SALEM FG T21RD

Pass through storage, U-shapeddinette, ext. speakers, outside shower, DSI water & heater.

$17,816 (Stk.30525)www.fraserwayrv.com

1-800-806-1976 DL #30644

AXC 1999 ROYAL CXA

CLASSIC CLASS C

31’ Ford V10, 173k.One owner,

GREAT condition. Island bed, partial

hard-wood. Near-new tires, rear air bags.

Many extras!

($23,900) $21,900604-626-8859

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

CA$H for CAR$ No Wheels -No Problem! Servicing the Fraser Valley 604-746-2855

AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVALMinimum $150 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 604-518-3673

Autos • Trucks• Equipment Removal

FREE TOWING 7 days/wk.We pay Up To $500 CA$H

Rick Goodchild 604.551.9022

#1 FREE SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL

ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT $$$ PAID FOR SOME

604.683.2200

TRANSPORTATION

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

SCRAP BATTERIES WANT-ED We buy scrap batteriesfrom cars, trucks & heavy equip. $4.00 each. Free pick-up anywhere in BC, Min. 10. Toll Free Call:1.877.334.2288

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL“No Wheels, No Problem”

$ WE PAY CASH FOR CARS $

CALL604-328-0081

7 Days/WeekThe Scrapper

847 SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES

2003 TRAIL BLAZER, 6 cyl. One owner 160 K. New tires, well maint. $8100. 604-596-0312 (Fleetwood)

2005 MT CRUISER, 93,000 kms. $6300. Call 604-816-1646.

848 TOWING

BENJAMIN TOWING

Flat rate $49604-318-8300

851 TRUCKS & VANS

1976 INT’L SCOUT TERRA2, con-vertible, 4x4, 1 ton pick up truck. Pontiac 400 big block, 375hp. Ap-prox. 3000 mi. on power train. One of a kind. $13,800. (604)799-8533

1992 GMC pick up, V8-305, 235,891 km, very clean, well main-tained. $3500 obo. 604-793-8107

1999 DODGE Caravan auto 2 yr AirCare, 179K, fully loaded, p/w, p/l, good cond, $2050. (778)552-6300

2000 CHEV Venture short wheel base. 2 sliding side doors Air cond. 200K a/cared $2250 (604)465-5131

MARINE

912 BOATS

FLAT DECK trailer 5’X12’, plus 13ft boat $575. for both obo

(604)767-9413


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